W.S. §35-22-401 et seq. · Wyoming
Wyoming: how to sign your advance directive
Wyoming repealed its living will in 2005. Laws 2005, ch. 161, §3 struck W.S. 35-22-101 through -109 — the whole chapter headed living will — and replaced it with the Wyoming Health Care Decisions Act, W.S. §35-22-401 et seq. (The statute's short title is Wyoming's own: §35-22-401, "This act may be cited as the 'Wyoming Health Care Decisions Act.'")
Why WearableDocs
In Wyoming, the directive has to be found
It does not wait on delivery to a clinician to operate — but a document no one can produce when asked for is a document that fails in practice. WearableDocs puts the signed directive on a card you carry and a page that opens in seconds, instead of a phone call to whoever might know which drawer.
You answer a few questions — your name, your state, and what you refuse — and WearableDocs builds the directive. Print it, sign it, upload it. Changing your answers later is part of the plan, so nothing is locked in.
What Wyoming asks
What you need to sign in Wyoming
- Instruments
- Individual instruction (your wishes, oral or written) and a power of attorney for health care (your agent)
- Form
- Individual instruction: no formality required. Power of attorney: no statutory form
- Execution
- Two witnesses OR a notary. The witness attestation is a perjury declaration in a fixed statutory substance
- May not witness
- Your treating provider or their employee; your agent; a community or residential care facility operator or employee
- May not be your agent
- An owner, operator or employee of a residential or community care facility where you receive care — unless related to you
- Copy rule
- A copy has the full effect of the original (§35-22-413)
- Delivery
- No delivery precondition. Because a copy is equivalent, the document is not waiting on delivery to operate
- Who decides
- The document may override the decider as well as the trigger
- Trigger overridable
- Yes — the document may set its own trigger
- Registry
- None
- Age
- 18
- Oral instructions
- Yes — an individual instruction may be oral, with no formality at all
- Carried device
- Nothing for the directive
- Citation
- W.S. §35-22-401 et seq.
Read from the enacted statute, 2026-09-18.
The instrument
What Wyoming actually recognizes
What survives is the individual instruction: your wishes, in a document the statute declines to constrain. §35-22-403(a) says an individual instruction "may be oral or written." No witnesses are required for it. A signature alone is enough, and so, in the statute's terms, is saying it out loud.
Alongside it sits a power of attorney for health care, for which Wyoming publishes no statutory form.
Two things follow, and circulating forms get both wrong. Forms still cite §35-22-102, which no longer exists. And people search Wyoming for a living will form, when the statute's word is individual instruction — a phrase that returns nothing in a search built on the wrong term.
What the popular guides get wrong
Corrections for Wyoming
"Wyoming living will form." The phrase describes a document Wyoming repealed in 2005. The surviving instrument is an individual instruction, and the difference is not only a name — the individual instruction carries no formality requirement, while the repealed living will did.
"Cite W.S. 35-22-102." Forms still in circulation cite it. The section no longer exists; the chapter it belonged to was struck in 2005. A Wyoming document citing §35-22-102 is citing a repealed statute.
Carried on you
What a WearableDocs card does in Wyoming
Wyoming's living will was repealed in 2005, and the instrument that replaced it gets nothing from being carried. No device provision, no bracelet statute, nothing attached to §35-22-401 et seq.
But Wyoming is the most permissive state in the set on how a directive may be made, and that changes what the card is for. An individual instruction "may be oral or written" — no witnesses, no notary, no form. Wyoming has effectively decided that the formality was never the point.
It has also made a copy the equal of the original (§35-22-413), so nothing is lost by carrying one. Yet the state publishes no form and no device, which means a Wyomingite is left to invent the document and then decide, unaided, where it should live.
That is the gap the card fills here — not a statutory mechanism, just the answer to a question Wyoming's statute declines to ask.