According to Arkansas law, any individual 18 years of age or more and of sound mind may execute a living will declaration governing the withholding of life-sustaining treatment
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In a Living Will you do not appoint an agent to make health related decisions for you if you are terminally ill. If you wish to designate such attorney-in-fact you need to complete Health Care Power of Attorney |
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According to Arkansas law, any individual 18 years of age or older and of sound mind may execute a declaration governing the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment.
How to complete this document: This is an important legal document known as a Living Will Declaration. The Arkansas Living Will Declaration 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 in exchange for obtaining a particular degree of benefit obtained if you were seriously ill.If there is something you do not understand about this document you should consult an attorney. Before signing this Arkansas Living Will Declaration you need to discuss your treatment with your physician in as much detail 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 your Arkansas Living Will Declaration, you must make an entirely new one. THIS HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVE 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: (1) a person related to you by blood or marriage;(2) 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; (3) your attending physician; (4) an employee of your attending physician; (5) 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 (6) a person who, at the time this power of attorney is executed, has a claim against any part of your estate after your death. |
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