We’re all encouraged to make out living wills which will let our families and the medical community know what our wishes are when we can no longer live without articificial means.  Supposedly, once this information is correctly put into writing, it will be honored.
A case in Florida has come to public attention whereby a jury decided a nursing home failed to honor an Alzheimer’s patient’s living will.  When the patient suffered a seizure, a number of live saving measures were attempted when her living will had stated that her desire was otherwise.
Dr. Kenneth Goodman, director of the University of Miami’s bioethics …read more