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WITNESSES OR NOTARY ACKNOWLEDGMENT [This Living Will Declaration will not be valid unless it either is signed by two eligible witnesses who are present when you sign or are present when you acknowledge your signature, or it is acknowledged before a Notary Public.]

Advance Directives are legal documents that provide instructions about your health care wishes in case you are unable to speak for yourself due to a medical condition. In Ohio, do not resuscitate orders, living wills, organ donation and durable powers of attorney are advance directives that are authorized by state law.

Ohio recognizes this order of your decision makers: legal guardian (if applicable), spouse, majority of adult children, parents, majority of adult siblings, or other nearest relative.

The general requirements for a valid Will are usually as follows: (a) the document must be written (meaning typed or printed), (b) signed by the person making the Will (usually called the ?testator? or ?testatrix?, and (c) signed by two witnesses who were present to witness the execution of the document by the maker ...

The specific requirements will be different in each state; however, in Ohio, your Living Will needs to be signed by a notary public or two witnesses. Witnesses to this Living Will cannot be your attending physician or an administrator of the nursing home where you reside, nor your spouse, adoptee, or other relative.

A Living Will is a document that allows you to establish, in advance, the type of medical care you would want to receive if you were to become permanently unconscious, or if you were to become terminally ill and unable to tell your physician or family what kind of life-sustaining treatments you want to receive.