Enough: The Failure of the Living Will

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Hastings Center Report 34 (2):30-42 (2004)
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In pursuit of the dream that patients' exercise of autonomy could extend beyond their span of competence, living wills have passed from controversy to conventional wisdom, to widely promoted policy. But the policy has not produced results, and should be abandoned.

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