RCW 70.122.090
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(1)Any person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, obliterates, or damages the directive of another without such declarer's consent is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
(2)Any person who falsifies or forges the directive of another, or willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation as provided in RCW 70.122.040 with the intent to cause a withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment contrary to the wishes of the declarer, and thereby, because of any such act, directly causes life-sustaining treatment to be withheld or withdrawn and death to thereby be hastened, shall be subject to prosecution for murder in the first degree as defined in RCW 9A.32.030 .
[ 2003 c 53 s 362 ; 1992 c 98 s 9 ; 1979 c 112 s 9 .]
Notes:
Intent — Effective date — 2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180 .