(a) A living will declaration or a life prolonging procedures will declaration may be revoked at any time by the declarant by any of the following:
- (1) A signed, dated writing.
- (2) Physical cancellation or destruction of the declaration by the declarant or another in the declarant's presence and at the declarant's direction.
- (3) An oral expression of intent to revoke.
- (b) A revocation is effective when communicated to the attending physician.
- (c) No civil or criminal liability is imposed upon a person for failure to act upon a revocation unless the person had actual knowledge of the revocation.
(d) The revocation of a life prolonging procedures will declaration is not evidence that the declarant desires to have life prolonging procedures withheld or withdrawn.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-8-11-13.]
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.19.