449.600 - Declaration relating to use of life-sustaining treatment. - Nevada Statutes

449.600  Declaration relating to use of life-sustaining treatment.

      1.  A person of sound mind and 18 or more years of age may execute at any time a declaration governing the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment. The declarant may designate another natural person of sound mind and 18 or more years of age to make decisions governing the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment. The declaration must be signed by the declarant, or another at the declarant’s direction, and attested by two witnesses.

      2.  A physician or other provider of health care who is furnished a copy of the declaration shall make it a part of the declarant’s medical record and, if unwilling to comply with the declaration, promptly so advise the declarant and any person designated to act for the declarant.

      (Added to NRS by 1977, 759; A 1985, 1747; 1991, 633)