Revocation of Statutory Living Will
STATUTORY REFERENCE
ALL REFERENCES ARE TO THE INDIANA CODE
REVOCATION OF LIVING WILL DECLARATION
(§ 16-36-4-12)
Indiana Code Section 16-36-4-12:
(a) A living will declaration
or a life prolonging procedures will declaration may be revoked at any
time by the declarant by any of the following:
(1) A signed, dated
writing.
(2) Physical cancellation
or destruction of the declaration by the declarant or another in the declarant's
presence and at the declarant's direction.
(3) An oral expression
of intent to revoke.
(b) A revocation is effective when communicated
to the attending physician.
(c) No civil or criminal liability is imposed
upon a person for failure to act upon a revocation unless the person had
actual knowledge of the revocation.
(d) The revocation of a life prolonging procedures
will declaration is not evidence that the declarant desires to have life
prolonging procedures withheld or withdrawn.
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