N.Y. Public Health Law § 2989: Effect on other rights

§ 2989. Effect on other rights. 1. A competent adult's failure to

appoint a health care agent or to provide the agent with specific health

care instructions pursuant to this article shall create no presumptions

regarding the adult's wishes about health care.

2. Nothing in this article creates, expands, diminishes, impairs or

supersedes any authority that a principal may have under law to make or

express decisions, wishes or instructions regarding health care,

including decisions about life sustaining treatment, whether or not

expressed in a health care proxy.

3. This article is not intended to permit or promote suicide, assisted

suicide, or euthanasia; accordingly, nothing herein shall be construed

to permit an agent to consent to any act or omission to which the

principal could not consent under law.