According to Kansas 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 Kansas 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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The Kansas Living Will is a written instrument that contains your directions to physicians and family members regarding types of medical care you want or do not want in case you are incapacitated or unconscious and can not communicate with the world.
Our website provides you with Kansas Health Care Directive forms approved by Kansas law. In you Living Will you can decide whether you want any of the following procedures:
Here are important definitions and explanations of the Kansas Living will that you shall know before making any further steps: This legal document must be:
It is the responsibility of Declarant to provide for notification to the Declarant's attending physician of the existence of the declaration. An attending physician who is so notified shall make the declaration, or a copy of the declaration, a part of the Declarant's medical records. The Kansas Living Will Declaration must be substantially in the statutory form and may include other specific directions. Should any of the other specific directions be held to be invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other directions of the declaration which can be given effect without the invalid direction, and to this end the directions in the declaration are severable. A declaration may be revoked at any time by the Declarant by any of the following methods:
The desires of a qualified patient at all times supersede the effect of the declaration. If the qualified patient is incompetent at the time of the decision to withhold or withdraw life sustaining procedures, the Kansas Living Will Declaration executed in accordance with K.S.A. 65-28,103 is presumed to be valid. If there is something you do not understand about this Kansas Living Will Declaration you should consult an attorney. Before signing this Kansas 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. |
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