A West Virginia living will is a declaration that states a person's desire to die a natural death and instructs physicians to withhold life-sustaining treatment. This is used only if the declarant becomes unable to communicate and develops an incurable condition.
“Living will” means a written, witnessed advance directive governing the withholding or withdrawing of life-prolonging intervention, voluntarily executed by a person in accordance with the requirements of § 16-30-4 of this code.[2]