A Living Will

Any adult may sign a declaration directing that life sustaining procedures be withheld or withdrawn in a terminal condition. It is in writing, signed by the person or by someone in their presence at their direction, and dated.

• It is signed before two or more witnesses at least 18 years of age, or acknowledged before a notary public.
• A witness may not be a relative by blood or marriage, an heir or beneficiary, someone paying for the person's medical care, or the one who signed for them.
• The declarant arranges for the attending physician to be told of it, and the physician puts it in the medical record.
• It has no effect while the patient is pregnant.

• §K.S.A. 65-28,103StatuteSame; declaration authorizing; effect during pregnancy of qualified patient; duty to notify attending physician; form of declaration; severability of directionsOpens kslegislature.gov ↗

It takes effect when two physicians who have examined the patient, one of them the attending physician, certify in writing that the patient has a terminal condition. Comfort care and pain relief are not life sustaining procedures.

• §K.S.A. 65-28,102StatuteSame; definitionsOpens kslegislature.gov ↗