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Living Will or Health Care Instructions

LIVING WILL or HEALTH CARE INSTRUCTIONS

If the time comes when I am incapacitated to the point when I can no longer actively take part in

decisions for my own life, and am unable to direct my physician as to my own medical care, I

wish this statement to stand as a statement of my wishes.

I, ________________________________, the author of this document, request that, if my

condition is deemed terminal or if I am determined to be permanently unconscious, I be

allowed to die and not be kept alive through life support systems.

By terminal condition, I mean that I have an incurable or irreversible medical condition which,

without the administration of life support systems, will, in the opinion of my attending physician,

result in death within a relatively short time. By permanently unconscious I mean that I am in a

permanent coma or persistent vegetative state which is an irreversible condition in which I am at

no time aware of myself or the environment and show no behavioral response to the

environment.

Specific Instructions

Listed below are my instructions regarding particular types of life support systems. This list is not

all-inclusive. My general statement that I not be kept alive through life support systems provided

to me is limited only where I have indicated that I desire a particular treatment to be provided.

Provide Withhold

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

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Artificial Respiration (including a respirator)

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Artificial means of providing nutrition and hydration

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Other specific requests: _________________________________________________________

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I do want sufficient pain medication to maintain my physical comfort. I do not intend any

direct taking of my life, but only that my dying not be unreasonably prolonged.

This request is made, after careful reflection, while I am of sound mind.

______ / ______ / ______ (Date) X______________________________

WITNESSES' STATEMENTS

This document was signed in our presence by _____________________________ the author of

this document, who appeared to be eighteen years of age or older, of sound mind and able to

understand the nature and consequences of health care decisions at the time this document was

signed. The author appeared to be under no improper influence. We have subscribed this

document in the author's presence and at the author's request and in the presence of each

other.

x__________________________ x___________________________

(Witness) (Witness)

x__________________________ x___________________________

(Number and Street) (Number and Street)

x__________________________ x___________________________

(City, State and Zip Code) (City, State and Zip Code)

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WITNESSES' AFFIDAVITS

STATE OF CONNECTICUT )

)

) :ss.__________________________

) (Town)

COUNTY OF ____________________________ )

We, the subscribing witnesses, being duly sworn, say that we witnessed the execution of this

living will or health care instructions by the author of this document; that the author subscribed,

published and declared the same to be the author's instructions, appointment s and designation

in our presence; that we thereafter subscribed the document as witnesses in the author's

presence, at the author's request and in the presence of each other; that at the time of the

execution of said document the author appeared to us to be eighteen years of age or older, of

sound mind, able to understand the nature and consequences of said docum ent, and under no

improper influence, and we make this affidavit at the author's request this _____ day of

_____________________, 20____.

x_____________________________ x_______________________________

(Witness) (Witness)

x_____________________________ x_______________________________

(Number and Street) (Number and Street)

x_____________________________ x_______________________________

(City, State and Zip Code) (City, State and Zip Code)

Subscribed and sworn to before me by ___________________and ______________________,

the signing witnesses to the foregoing affidavit this ______ day of ________________ _,

20____.

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Commissioner of the Superior Court

Notary Public

My Commission expires: _____________

(Print or type name of all persons signing under all signatures)