RSA 137-J:1 Purpose and Policy.

I. The state of New Hampshire recognizes that individual persons have the right, founded in the autonomy and sanctity of a person, to control the decisions relating to the rendering of their own medical care. In order that the rights of persons may be respected even after such persons lack the capacity to make health care decisions for themselves, and to encourage communication between patients and their attending practitioners, the general court declares that the laws of this state shall recognize the right of a competent person to make a written directive:
(a) Delegating to an agent in the durable power of attorney for health care the authority to make health care decisions on the person's behalf, in the event such person is unable to make those decisions independently, eith