Abstract

In this article author considers the rights, not of someone who was born and always been demented but of someone who has been competent in the past. He asks if a competent person´s right to autonomy includes the power to dictate hat life prolonging treatment be denied him later, even if he, when demented, pleads for it. To answer this question he considers the extension of contemporary and precedent autonomy and the consecuences holding and evidentiary view or the integrity perspective of autonomy implies