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Life-and-Death Agreements: The Will to Live |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Burke Balch |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1996 |
| Size: 1,063 Words, 6,793 Characters |
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Be Very Careful Your grandmother, enfeebled, has a mind that frequently wanders. Will her nursing home provide her assistance in feeding?
Many people who do not want what they see as a lot of medical technology prolonging the last few hours or days of their life when they are terminally ill sign living wills--and will be tempted to sign the new health-care advance directive. They should be aware that if they do so, they may be rejecting treatment in a much broader range of circumstances than they intended.
The health-care advance directive does allow one to add a "directive about end-of-life treatment in my own words," or to check a directive to receive treatment s...
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...ich particular treatments should be rejected.
Everyone should have an advance directive to facilitate health-care decision making when one is incapable of making decisions. But the health-care advance directive is so broadly written that it may lead to being starved to death in circumstances when you could survive indefinitely with what you might deem a very tolerable disability. Avoid it.
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