Wednesday, September 23, 2009

bucket list

mental capacity assessment - living will - advance medical directive - curative treatment - palliation - life sustaining care - life prolonging care - substituted judgment - best interest judgment

it is ironic that dying, which is the most private of all our actions, must be so hotly debated and inspires such public defence. surely the longer road of life to death's door and beyond carries greater import, and permits more appropriate participation, than the shape or size of this one aperture.

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