According to Alaska law, an adult may prepare a written statement known as a living will to control the health care treatment decisions that can be made on that person behalf
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In Alaska any individual 18 years of age or older may, at any time, make a written advance directive declaration (Living Will) regarding the provision of health care to that individual, or the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment.
A Living Will does not appoint an Agent. However, you may use the Living Will in addition to a Health Care Power of Attorney in your advance health care directive.
The Alaska Living Will is an important legal document known as an Advance Directive. It is designed to help you communicate your wishes about medical treatment at some time in the future when you are unable to make your wishes known because of illness or injury. These wishes are usually based on personal values. In particular, you may want to consider what burdens or hardships of treatment you would be willing to accept for a particular amount of benefit obtained if you were seriously ill.
Among the options that you may consider in your Alaska Living Will Declaration are:
- whether you want your life to be prolonged by life sustaining measures;
- whether you want to receive food/water through a tube;
- whether you want to be given cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in the event your heart stops beating;
- whether you want your doctor to put you on kidney dialysis;
- limiting the use of certain medications such as chemotherapy, antibiotics; and,
- whether you want the use of mechanical ventilators to aid or replace normal breathing.
- organ donation.
Before signing this important document you need to discuss you treatment with your physician in as many details as possible, and consider types of treatments that you want/do not want to be performed for you when you are unable to express your wishes because of your illness. Please make sure to state clearly particular treatments you want or do not want.
This document may not be changed or modified. If you want to make changes in the document, you must make an entirely new one.
THIS ALASKA LIVING WILL IS NOT VALID UNLESS IT IS SIGNED IN THE PRESENCE OF TWO COMPETENT ADULT WITNESSES. THE FOLLOWING PERSONS MAY NOT ACT AS ONE OF THE WITNESSES:
- the person you have designated as your agent;
- a person related to you by blood or marriage;
- a person entitled to any part of your estate after your death under a will or codicil executed by you or by operation of law;
- your attending physician;
- an employee of your attending physician;
- an employee of a health care facility in which you are a patient if the employee is providing direct patient care to you or is an officer, director, partner, or business office employee of the health care facility or of any parent organization of the health care facility; or
- a person who, at the time this power of attorney is executed, has a claim against any part of your estate after your death.
A health care provider who makes good faith health care decisions based on the provisions of an apparently genuine living will is immune from criminal and civil liability for those decisions.
Before signing this Alaska Living Will you need to discuss your treatment with your physician in as many details as possible, and consider types of treatments that you want/do not want to be performed for you when you are unable to express your wishes because of your illness. Please make sure to state clearly particular treatments you want or do not want.
It is suggested that you keep the original of the Alaska Living Will Declaration on file with your physician and family members.
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