Fill and Sign the North Carolina Living Wills Form

© 2016 - U.S. Legal Forms, Inc. NORTH CAROLINA LIVING WILLS PACKAGE Control Number: NC-P078-PKG U.S. Legal Forms™ thanks you for your purchase of a Living Wills Package. This package is a useful and necessary tool for making decisions about life support and other medical issues and ensuring that your wishes are implemented. The Living Will package allows you to make the decision of whether life-prolonging medical or surgical procedures are to be continued, withheld, or withdrawn, as well as when artificial feeding and fluids are to be used or withheld. It allows you to express your wishes prior to being incapacitated TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Form List with descriptionsII. Descriptions of FormsIII. Tips on Completing the FormsIV. DisclaimerI. FORM LISTWith your Living Will package, you will find the forms that will help you ensure your decisions regarding medical treatment and life support are carried out.Included in your package are the following forms:1.Statutory Power of Attorney for Health Care t2. Revocation of Statutory Power of Attorney for Health Care3. Statutory Living Will - Declaration for a Desire for a Natural Death 4. Revocation of Statutory Equivalent of Living Will or Declaration5. Uniform Anatomical Gift Act Donation6. Revocation of Anatomical Gift Act DonationII. DESCRIPTIONS OF FORMSBrief descriptions of the forms contained in your U.S. Legal Forms™ Living Will package are found below.Statutory Power of Attorney for Health Care - This Statutory Power of Attorney for Health Care gives the person you designate as your agent/attorney in fact the power to make health care decisions for you. Your agent must act consistently with your desires as stated in this Power of Attorney. This document gives your agent the power to consent to your doctor not giving treatment or stopping treatment necessary to keep you alive. You have the right to make health care decisions for yourself as long as you can give informed consent. No treatment may be given over your objection and health care necessary to keep you alive may not be stopped or withheld if you object. Revocation of Statutory Power of Attorney for Health Care - This Revocation of Statutory Power of Attorney for Health Care form is a revocation of the authority and power granted in Form NC- P014, which gives the person you designate as your agent/attorney in fact the power to make health care decisions for you. You may revoke a health care power of attorney at any time, so long as you are capable of making and communicating health care decisions. You may exercise this right of revocation by executing and acknowledging an instrument of revocation, by executing and acknowledging a subsequent health care power of attorney, or in any other manner by which you communicate intent to revoke. Statutory Living Will - Declaration for a Desire for a Natural Death – This Declaration form allows you to express your wishes and desires regarding whether or not your life is prolonged by artificial means in the event that you are in a terminal, incurable condition or persistent vegetative state. Revocation of Statutory Equivalent of Living Will or Declaration - This form is a revocation of NC-P024 which provides a person's wishes and desires regarding whether or not his/her life is prolonged by artificial means. Specific reference is made to the earlier executed Declaration. Uniform Anatomical Gift Act Donation – This Uniform Anatomical Gift Act Donation form pursuant to state statutes designates the specific body parts and organs an individual wishes to donate at the time of death. Any individual who is eighteen (18) years of age or over and who is competent to execute a will may give all or any part of his body for any one or more of the statutory purposes. A gift of all or part of the body may be made by will or by a document other than a will. The document must be signed by the donor in the presence of two (2) witnesses who, in turn, shall sign the document in the donor's presence. This form must be witnessed and the signature notarized. Revocation of Anatomical Gift Act Donation - This is an Anatomical Gift Donation Revocation Form which revokes Form NC-P025 that designates the body parts and organs an individual wishes to donate at the time of death. If the will, card or other document or executed copy has been delivered to a specified donee, the donor may amend or revoke the gift by executing and delivering to the donee a signed statement, making an oral statement in the presence of two persons and communicating the same to the donee, making a statement during a terminal illness or injury addressed to an attending physician and communicating the same to the donee, or keeping a signed card or document on his person or in his effects, and making the same known to the donee. Any document of gift which has not been delivered to the donee may be revoked by the donor or guardian in the manner set out above or by destruction, cancellation or mutilation of the document and all executed copies. Specific reference is made to the earlier executed Anatomical Gift Donation. See Uniform Anatomical Gift Act [North Carolina General Statutes & Sect; 130A-402]. If you need additional information, please visit www.uslegalforms.com and look up forms by subject matter. You may also wish to visit our legal definitions page at http://definitions.uslegal.com/ III. TIPS ON COMPLETING THE FORMSThe form(s) in this packet may contain “form fields” created using Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat (“.pdf” format). “Form fields” facilitate completion of the forms using your computer. They do not limit your ability to print the form “in blank” and complete with a typewriter or by hand.It is also helpful to be able to see the location of the form fields. Go to the View menu, click on Toolbars, and then select Forms. This will open the Forms toolbar. Look for the button on the Forms toolbar that resembles a shaded letter “a”. Click this button and the form fields will be visible. By clicking on the appropriate form field, you will be able to enter the needed information. In some instances, the form field and the line will disappear after information is entered. In other cases, it will not. The form was created to function in this manner.IV. DISCLAIMERThese materials were developed by U.S. Legal Forms, Inc. based upon statutes and forms for the subject state. All information and Forms are subject to this Disclaimer: All forms in this package are provided without any warranty, express or implied, as to their legal effect and completeness. Please use at your own risk. If you have a serious legal problem, we suggest that you consult an attorney in your state. U.S. Legal Forms, Inc. does not provide legal advice. The products offered by U.S. Legal Forms (USLF) are not a substitute for the advice of an attorney.THESE MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NONINFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 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