(a) “Attending physician” means the physician who has primary responsibility for the treatment and care of the patient.
(b) “Declaration” means a writing executed in accordance with the requirements of section 187(a) of this title.
(c) “Health-care provider” means a person who is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized by the laws of this Territory to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession.
(d) “Life-sustaining treatment” means any medical procedure or intervention that, when administered to a qualified patient, will serve only to prolong the process of dying.
(e) “Permanently unconscious” means a condition lasting indefinitely, without change in which thought, feelings, sensations and awareness of self and environment are absent.
(f) “Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision or agency, or any other legal or commercial entity.
(g) “Physician” means an individual licensed to practice medicine in this Territory.
(h) “Qualified patient” means a patient 18 or more years of age who has executed a declaration and who has been determined by the attending physician to be in a terminal condition or in a permanently unconscious state.
(i) “State” means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(j) “Terminal condition” means an incurable and irreversible condition that, without the administration of life-sustaining treatment, will, in the opinion of the attending physician, result in death within a relatively short time.