A living will executed prior to the effective date of this article and which expressly provides for the withholding or withdrawal of life-prolonging intervention or for the termination of life-sustaining procedures in substantial compliance with the provisions of section four of this article is hereby recognized as a valid living will, as though it were executed in compliance with the provisions of this article.
Structure West Virginia Code
Article 30. West Virginia Health Care Decisions Act
§16-30-2. Legislative Findings and Purpose
§16-30-5. Applicability and Resolving Actual Conflict Between Advance Directives
§16-30-7. Determination of Incapacity
§16-30-8. Selection of a Surrogate
§16-30-12. Conscience Objections
§16-30-13. Interinstitutional Transfers
§16-30-15. Withholding of Life Support Not Assisted Suicide or Murder
§16-30-16. Preservation of Existing Rights and Relation to Existing Law; No Presumption
§16-30-17. No Abrogation of Common Law Doctrine of Medical Necessity