A Living Will

Any adult may make a written declaration directing that life-sustaining procedures be withheld or withdrawn if he has a terminal and irreversible condition. It is signed in the presence of two witnesses. After that diagnosis, a declaration may also be made orally or by other means before two witnesses.

• §La. R.S. 40:1151.2StatuteMaking of declaration; notification; illustrative form; registry; issuance of do-not-resuscitate identification braceletsOpens legis.la.gov ↗

• The declarant notifies the attending physician, and someone else may do so if the declarant cannot.
• The law's illustrative form lets the declarant choose whether nutrition and hydration are withheld too.
• The secretary of state keeps a registry, charges $20 to register a declaration and issue a do not resuscitate bracelet, and $5 to file a revocation.

• §La. R.S. 40:1151.2StatuteMaking of declaration; notification; illustrative form; registry; issuance of do-not-resuscitate identification braceletsOpens legis.la.gov ↗

A declaration may be revoked at any time, regardless of mental state, by destroying it, by a signed and dated written revocation, or by an oral or nonverbal expression, effective once the physician is told.

• §La. R.S. 40:1151.3StatuteRevocation of declarationOpens legis.la.gov ↗