PHI-2635 Chapter Notes - Chapter 355: Advance Healthcare Directive, Stymie
30 Nov 2016
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For the sake of argument " living wills desirably serve a strong version of patient autonomy. An attempt to extend patients exercise of autonomy be on the stand of competence comma resources have been lavished to make living wills routine and even universal. This policy is not produce results that recompense its cost, and it should therefore be renounced. Living wills or bioethical idea that has passed from controversy to conventional wisdom, from the council of academic journals to the commands of law books, from professors proposal to professional practice. Courts administrative agencies to have become advocates of living wills. The veterans administration has proposed a rule to encourage the use of advance directives, including living wills. Where legislators have not granted living wills legal status, some sort have done so as a matter of common law, and when legislators have granted them legal status, some courts have cooperated with eager enthusiasm.
