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RCW 70.122.010 Legislative findings.
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The legislature finds that adult persons have the fundamental right to control the decisions relating to the rendering of their own health care, including the decision to have life-sustaining treatment withheld or withdrawn in instances of a terminal condition or permanent uncons…
RCW 70.122.020 Definitions.
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Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions contained in this section shall apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Adult person" means a person who has attained the age of majority as defined in RCW 26.28.010 and 26.28.015, and who has the capacity to make health …
RCW 70.122.030 Directive to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment.
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(1) Any adult person may execute a directive directing the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in a terminal condition or permanent unconscious condition. The directive shall be signed by the declarer and acknowledged before a notary public or other individual …
RCW 70.122.040 Revocation of directive.
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(1) A directive may be revoked at any time by the declarer, without regard to the declarer's mental state or competency, by any of the following methods: (a) By being canceled, defaced, obliterated, burned, torn, or otherwise destroyed by the declarer or by some person in the dec…
