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If you are ever medically incapacitated and unable to communicate, your loved ones might not know which medical treatment choices to make on your behalf. By leaving a living will, you can provide clear instructions about your treatment choices and decisions on end-of-life issues. This can potentially protect your family members from the difficulty of having to make these decisions for you.
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How it works
Create your living will in under an hour
Create an account
Create a secure account which is accessible through an easy dashboard you can access any time
Gather information
Decide who will be your health care agent/proxy, which treatments you would request or refuse and release your records
Complete your document
Answer all questions, then we’ll generate your digital documents for downloading, printing, and signing
Make it legal
Print and sign your document according to instructions. Give copies to your doctors and agent/proxy
What’s next to make my Connecticut living will valid?
If you want a living will, you can hire a lawyer or use a living will form from a reliable source. If you use a form, follow these steps:
Decide on your medical treatment preferences
Your living will is a type of advance health care directive. It is a legal document that allows you to specify your medical decisions in case you become unable to make these choices on your own. You will need to decide whether you would want to remain on life support systems if you have a terminal condition and whether you would want cardiopulmonary resuscitation (“CPR”). If you are unsure about these choices, you should talk to your doctor and loved ones before committing to them.
Choose your health care representative
Under Connecticut law, you have the option to choose a health care representative as part of your living will. Your health care representative should be a trusted person who you designate to make medical treatment decisions on your behalf. You should also designate an alternate health care representative in case your first choice cannot perform the task. Other terms for a representative may include a durable power of attorney, health care agent, or health care proxy.
Sign your living will
You should sign your living will and appointment of a health care representative (your “advance directives”) in the presence of two witnesses. The witnesses should then also sign your advance directives. The person you are choosing as your health care representative should not act as one of your witnesses. If you have named a conservator, this person cannot be one of your witnesses either. You can find more information about your witness choices in our FAQs.
Distribute and store your living will
After signing your living will, you need to make sure that the right people have a copy of it. Make sure that your health care representative has a copy. Close family members and health care providers should have a copy. You may also consider depositing your living will with an online living will registry. These services allow medical providers to access your living will online in the case of an emergency.
Update your living will
As a general rule, it’s a good practice to review your advanced directives. You should also review them if you get a new diagnosis, have gone through a divorce, or have changed your mind about your preferences. After updating your advance directives, make sure that your loved ones, doctors, and health care representative all have a copy.

You may want to speak with a lawyer if:
- Your family disagrees with your medical choices
- You don’t know who to appoint as your agent
- You have questions about life prolonging measures
- You want legal review of your completed document
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Create my living willCommon questions about Connecticut living wills
To create a valid living will in Connecticut, you need to fulfill certain requirements:
- You must be at least 18 years old
- You need to sign your living will
- You should be of sound mind. This means that you are able to understand the consequences of health care decisions and of the legal documents you are signing
- There must be two witnesses present when you sign your health care directive and living will. They should also sign. Neither of your witnesses should be your conservator or health care representative.
Your Connecticut living will does not need to be notarized to be legally valid. To make your living will self-proving in Connecticut, you and your witnesses need to swear to an affidavit in front of a notary public.
Yes, under Connecticut law, there are certain people who you cannot name as your health care representative:
- Your attending physician or advanced practice nurse
- An employee of a government agency that is financially responsible for your medical treatment
- Anyone who works in a nursing home, hospital, or residential care facility where you are a patient, with exceptions for blood relatives.
Your health care representative cannot act as a witness to your advance directives. If you reside in a state-run health facility, you may need to ask friends or family members outside of the facility to witness your living will and your health care representative designation.
Yes, your doctors are required to provide you with comfort care and pain medication to keep you physically comfortable. Your health care providers will provide you with pain alleviation treatment as appropriate. They will do so regardless of whether you have a living will.
Yes, in Connecticut, an out-of-state or foreign living will is valid. But you must have created it according to the laws of that state or country, or in accordance with Connecticut laws. The provisions in the living will must also not be against Connecticut public policy.
If you have moved from another state, it’s a good opportunity to revise your estate planning documents. That way, you can make sure that they are valid under Connecticut law and reflect your current preferences.
Under Connecticut law, your living will only become effective if your situation meets both of the following criteria:
- Your attending physician or advanced practice registered nurse received the advance health directive documents.
- The nurse or physician determines, in their professional medical judgment, that you are incapacitated. Note that “incapacitated” refers to a patient who can’t make an informed decision about their health care choices. Further, they do not appreciate the benefits or risks of their treatment options.
So, these criteria establish that your living will does not become effective while you can still understand and communicate your health care choices. It only becomes operative in more serious medical situations or where you are unable to communicate.
Yes, you can leave an anatomical gift of your body or part that takes effect after your death. You can leave the anatomical gift for research, transplantation, therapy, or education. If you leave an anatomical gift, this will go into effect upon your death.
You can revoke your living will at any time. When you revoke your living will, you should inform your health care representative and any medical care providers who have a copy of it.
To revoke your health care representative designation, you must make a written revocation. You then need to sign the revocation in front of two witnesses. The witnesses must also sign the revocation. A divorce or legal separation will void any designation of your former spouse as your health care representative.
An effective way of revoking your living will is to create a new one that revokes anything prior.
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