Free Wisconsin Living Will

In Wisconsin, the living will is the Declaration to Health Care Professionals (Wisconsin Living Will), a document of its own, apart from the healthcare power of attorney.

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Any person of sound mind and 18 years of age or older may make a declaration to health care professionals (wisconsin living will) in Wisconsin.

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The state whose law the document is prepared under. In Massachusetts, Michigan, New York and Oregon, treatment instructions are part of the healthcare power of attorney; those state pages lead there.

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Yes. Wisconsin prints the form in the statute, published by Wisconsin Department of Health Services (form F-00060). The document prepared here is that form, filled from your answers, with the agent parts left blank.

The declarant signs it in the presence of 2 adult witnesses; no notary is required. A declarant who cannot sign may have another adult sign at the declarant's direction and in the declarant's presence.

When you can no longer make your own treatment decisions and your condition is one the statute names: terminal condition; persistent vegetative state, as certified by your attending physician and one other physician. Wisconsin defines each term in the statute, and the document prints the definitions it uses.

Yes, with a separate election. Wisconsin lets the declaration direct that artificially provided nutrition and hydration be withheld or withdrawn, and requires that choice to be stated specifically in the words the statute prescribes; the document carries the election with an initials line. Only nutrition or hydration through a feeding tube may be declined; other nutrition or hydration may be declined only where it is medically contraindicated, and no feeding tube may be withheld where the attending health care professional advises that withholding will cause pain or reduce comfort tha.

Wisconsin recognizes these ways to revoke it: by being canceled, defaced, obliterated, burned, torn or otherwise destroyed by the declarant or by some person who is directed by the declarant and who acts in the presence of the declarant; by a written revocation of the declarant expressing the intent to revoke, signed and dated by the declarant; by a verbal expression by the declarant of his or her intent to revoke the declaration. This revocation becomes effective only if the declarant or a person who is acting on behalf of the declarant notifies the attending health care professional of the revocation.

The Living Will in Wisconsin

In Wisconsin, the Declaration to Health Care Professionals (Wisconsin Living Will) stands on its own statute, separate from the healthcare power of attorney and with its own execution section. The document is the declaration by itself; an agent is named with the healthcare power of attorney.

Wisconsin prints the form in the statute, and Wisconsin Department of Health Services (form F-00060) publishes it; in the statute's words, “The declaration distributed by the department of health services shall be easy to read, the type size may be no smaller than 10 point, and the declaration shall be in the following form”. The document is that form, filled from the entries, with the agent parts left blank.

The declaration operates when the declarant can no longer make treatment decisions and the condition is one the statute names: terminal condition; persistent vegetative state. Two physicians, the attending physician and one other, certify the condition before the declaration takes effect.

Signing in Wisconsin takes the declarant's signature before 2 adult witnesses; no notary is involved. Another adult may sign for a declarant who cannot, at the declarant's direction and in the declarant's presence.

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