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- SUMMARY OF STATE LIVING WILL LEGISLATION
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- IDAHO
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- Synopsis: Idaho is a weak living will state. ONLY PATIENTS WITH
- A TERMINAL DIAGNOSIS have the right to execute a living will.
- The law does not provide for the declaration to be binding or
- enforceable against a hospital or physician. To prepare a Idaho
- living will using the state suggested form, please select this
- option from the main menu. Remember that the publisher recommends
- preparing a "uniform" living will in addition to the form
- suggested with by the State of Idaho. Please also consider
- executing a living will for any State that you spend more than a
- few weeks per year, or where you are a temporary resident.
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- Statute number: Idaho Code 39-4501
- Statute title: "Idaho Natural Death Act"
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- Governmental Agency to contact for more information: None specified
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- A specific form of living will is provided
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- Witness requirements: Number: 2 Relationship: Witnesses may
- not be related by blood or marriage, may not be directly responsible
- for the medical costs of the declarant and must be over 189 years
- of age. Further the witnesses must not be the patient's doctor,
- an employee of the doctor or of a hospital. Witnesses may not
- have any interest in the patient's estate.
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- Living wills must be re-executed every five years
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- Recording of the living will is not provided
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- Revocation of the living will may be made by tearing, defacing,
- burning, etc. It may be verbally revoked by statements to a
- single witness. Revocation may be made even if the patient
- is not competent.