A “Terminal Condition” is an incurable or irreversible condition for which the administration of life-sustaining procedures will serve only to postpone the moment of your death.

“Persistent Vegetative State” (Colorado) is not specifically defined, but rather is decided by reference to the criteria and definitions employed by the prevailing medical community standards of practice. It generally includes a medical state in which, within a reasonable degree of medical probability, the patient can no longer think, feel anything, knowingly move, or be aware of being alive. The physicians must agree this condition will last indefinitely without hope for improvement and they must have monitored the patient long enough to make that decision. “Permanent Unconscious Condition” (Washington ) is an incurable and irreversible condition in which you are medically assessed within reasonable medical judgment as having no reasonable probability of recovery from an irreversible coma or a persistent vegetative state.