Illinois Living Will Act - 755 ILCS 35

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Purpose . The legislature finds that persons have the fundamental right to control the decisions relating to the rendering of their own medical care, including the decision ...

Definitions: (a) "Attending physician" means the physician selected by, or assigned to, the patient who has primary responsibility for the treatment and care of the patient . ...

Execution of a Document . (a) An individual of sound mind and having reached the age of majority or having obtained the status of an emancipated person ...

Recording of a Terminal Condition . Upon determining that the declarant has a terminal condition, the attending physician who knows of a declaration shall record the determination ...

Revocation . (a) A declaration may be revoked at any time by the declarant, without regard to declarant's mental or physical condition, by any of the following ...

Physician Responsibilities . An attending physician who has been notified of the existence of a declaration executed under this Act, without delay after the diagnosis of ...

Immunity . The desires of a qualified patient shall at all times supersede the effect of the declaration. A physician or other health-care provider may presume, ...

Penalties . (a) Any person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, obliterates, or damages the declaration of another without such declarant's consent or who falsifies or forges a ...

General provisions . (a) The withholding or withdrawal of death delaying procedures from a qualified patient in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall not, for ...

This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Illinois Living Will Act" . (Source: P.A. 83-824.) ...