Life Prolonging Treatment (check and initial only one)
* * (check box and initial line, if you desire the option below)
Direct that treatment be withheld or withdrawn, and that I be permitted to die
naturally with only the administration of medication or the performance of any
medical treatment deemed necessary to alleviate pain.
(check box and initial line, if you desire the option below)
DO NOT authorize that life-prolonging treatment be withheld or withdrawn.
Nourishment and/or Fluids (check and initial only one)
(check box and initial line, if you desire the option below)
Authorize the withholding or withdrawal of artificially provided food, water, or
other artificially provided nourishment or fluids.Living WiLL Directive — continueD
(check box and initial line, if you desire the option below)
DO NOT authorize the withholding or withdrawal of artificially provided food,
water, or other artificially provided nourishment or fluids.
Surrogate Determination of Best Interest
NOTE: If you desire this option, DO NOT choose any of the preceding options
regarding Life Prolonging Treatment and Nourishment and/or Fluids
(check box and initial line, if you desire the option below)
Authorize my surrogate, as designated on the previous page, to withhold or
withdraw artificially provided nourishment or fluids, or other treatment if the
surrogate determines that withholding or withdrawing is in my best interest; but I
do not mandate that withholding or withdrawing.
Organ/Tissue/Eye Donation
I certify that I am eighteen (18) years of age or older and of sound mind, and that upon my
death, I hereby give:
Check appropriate boxes and initial the line beside that box:
Any needed organs, tissues, and eye/corneas
or
The following organs or tissues only (check and initial all that apply):
All needed organs
All needed tissues
Corneas
Eyes
Other or
_______ Only the specified organs/tissues as listed:
Organs that can be donated: heart, lungs, liver, pancreas, kidneys, and small bowel.
Tissues that can currently be donated: skin (outermost layer from lower trunk and
abdomen), bone, heart valves, leg veins, pericardium, vertebral bodies.
Eye donation can be the corneas (outer most layer), the sclera (shell), or the entire eye.In the absence of my ability to give directions regarding the use of life-prolonging treatment
and artificially provided nutrition and hydration, it is my intention that this directive shall be
honored by my attending physician, my family, and any surrogate designated pursuant to
this directive as the final expression of my legal right to refuse medical or surgical treatment
and I accept the consequences of the refusal.
If I have been diagnosed as pregnant and that diagnosis is known to my attending
physician, this directive shall have no force or effect during the course of my pregnancy.
I understand the full import of this directive and I am emotionally and mentally competent
to make this directive.
Signed this
(signature and address of the grantor)
Have two adults witness your signature OR have signature notarized.*
In our joint presence, the grantor, who is of sound mind and eighteen (18) years of age, or
older, voluntarily dated and signed this writing or directed it to be dated and signed for the
grantor.
(signature and address of witness)
or
COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY, County
Before me, the undersigned authority, came the grantor who is of sound mind and eighteen
(18) years of age or older, and acknowledged that he/she voluntarily dated and signed this
writing or directed it to be signed and dated as above.
Done this
Signature of Notary Public Date commission expires
* None of the following shall be a witness to or serve as a notary public or other person authorized to administer oaths
in regard to any advance directive made under this section:
A blood relative of the grantor;
A beneficiary of the grantor under descent and distribution statutes of the Commonwealth;
An employee of a health care facility in which the grantor is a patient, unless the employee serves as a
notary public;
An attending physician of the grantor; or
Any person directly financially responsible for the grantor’s health care.
NOTICE: Execution of this document restricts withholding and withdrawing of some medical procedures. Consult
Kentucky Revised Statutes or your attorney.
A person designated as a surrogate pursuant to an advance directive may resign at any time by giving written notice
to the grantor; to the immediate successor surrogate, if any; to the attending physician; and to any health care
facility which is then waiting for the surrogate to make a health care decision.