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            SUMMARY OF STATE LIVING WILL LEGISLATION

WASHINGTON

Synopsis: Washington has a strong living will statute. The
statute provides that upon a terminal diagnosis that the
physician either implement the directive or make a good faith
effort to transfer the patient. The statute requires that
physicians keep a copy of any implemented declaration and also
provide the health care facility (hospital) with a copy of the
declaration. A declaration or revocation is to be made a
permanent part of the medical records of the patient. To prepare
a living will using the State of Washington recommended form,
please select living will preparation from the opening menu.
Remember that the publisher recommends preparing a "uniform"
living will in addition to the form suggested with by the State
of Washington. Please also consider executing a living will for
any State that you spend more than a few weeks per year, or where
you are a temporary resident.

Statute number: Wash. Rev. Code. Section 70.122.010

Statute title: "Washington Natural Death Act"

Governmental Agency to contact for more information: None
specified

A specific form of living will is provided in the state statute
the statute provides that the form used must essentially be the
same as the state form, and notes that additional clauses are
permissible- by implication this means that any change to the
body of the living will itself might be cause for determining the
same to be invalid

Witness requirements: Number: 2 Relationship: Witnesses may
not be related by blood or marriage, may not be have a claim
against the estate of the declarant, may not be entitled to any
distribution under either the will of the declarant or by the
laws of intestacy, must not be the attending physician or an
employee thereof, or an employee of the health facility in which
the declarant is a patient; and must be over 18 years of
age.

Recording of the living will is not provided for

Revocation of the living will may be made by a separate written
instrument or by a verbal declaration if the physician is 
notified of the same.