State Law - According to Arizona revised Statute, an adult may prepare a written statement living will to control health care treatment decisions
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Use Arizona Statutory Durable Health Care Power of Attorney form to designate a person to make future health care decisions for you so that if you become too ill or can not make those decisions |
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Arizona Revised Statute 36-3261 expressly provides for the validity of a Living Will in the State. Living Wills are legal and valid in Arizona.
According to the Arizona revised Statute, 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's behalf. The person may use the Living Will in addition to or instead of a Health Care Power of Attorney or to disqualify a surrogate. How to complete this document: This important legal document is 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 in exchange for obtaining a certain 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. In the paragraphs (1.1) through (1.5) you need to insert your initials in capital letters in the brackets according to your choice. Before signing this Arizona Living Will, 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 which particular treatments you want or do not want. This document may not be changed or modified. If you want to make changes in the Living Will, 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) the person designated by the Principal as your agent;(2) a person related to the Principal by blood or marriage; (3) a person entitled to any part of the Principal’s estate after the Principal’s death under a will or codicil executed by the Principal or by operation of law; (4) the Principal’s attending physician; (5) an employee of the Principal’s attending physician; (6) an employee of a health care facility in which the Principal is a patient if the employee is providing direct patient care to the Principal 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 (7) a person who, at the time this power of attorney is executed, has a claim against any part of the Principal’s estate after his or her 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 to the same extent and under the same conditions as prescribed in the Section 36-3205 AZ Revised Statute. This directive is effective until you (the Principal) revoke it. In the paragraph 1.4 you may state your preferences regarding organ donation. Under Arizona law, you may make a gift of all or part of your body to a bank or storage facility or a hospital, physician or medical or dental school for transplantation, therapy, medical or dental evaluation or research or for the advancement of medical or dental science. You may also authorize your agent to do so, or a member of your family may make a gift unless you give them notice that you do not want a gift made. In paragraph 1.4 you may make a gift yourself or state that you do not want to make a gift. If you do not complete this section, your agent will have the authority to make a gift of a part of your body pursuant to law. |
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