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what is the document called that gives medical decision rights e.g.: if comatose can terminate one's life?
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- Anonymous4 years agoFavorite Answer
An advance medical directive, or a living will, or a medical power of attorney.
- RosalieLv 74 years ago
Where I live, it is called a Medical Proxy.
Speak to your doctor, they or the hospital can provide you with the forms and the procedure to put it into effect.
- ?Lv 74 years ago
Here in the UK, the only thing that can do that is a power of attorney, or an advance directive in the case of people no longer mentally capable of deciding for themselves. What country are you asking about?
- YetiLv 74 years ago
Advance healthcare directive, also known as living will, personal directive, advance directive, medical directive or advance decision.
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- Anonymous4 years ago
Living will, DNR - do not resuscitate.
- John de WittLv 74 years ago
There's an important point here. There are very few places where euthanasia is legal. You're probably thinking of advance directives, expressing a person's wish not to be kept alive in certain hopeless situations; or a medical power of attorney, which gives somebody else the authority to make treatment decisions. But neither of those allows anybody's life to be terminated. They only allow life-supporting treatments to be withdrawn, so nature can take her course.