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Advanced healthcare directives could encompass mentally and physically incapacitated (vegetative / minimally conscious / severe brain injury / Alzheimer's / dementia) states

By Hicbd
Tue Nov 12 2024 10:26 am

"For many years, the positions fostering the “sanctity” of human life (i.e., life is inviolable in any case) have led to maintaining life-sustaining treatments (including artificial nutrition and hydration) in patients with disorders of consciousness, allowing them to live for as long as possible. Seldom have positions that foster “dignity” of human life (i.e., everyone has the right to a worthy death) allowed for the interruption of life-sustaining treatments in some patients with disorders of consciousness."

URL:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5300707/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2005/03/23/little-known-about-starvation-death/33a55bab-3b48-4d85-840a-cf3804ec7c89/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9566.12020

Categories:
Healthcare Dying / Death Laws Global Human Rights U.S. Laws Nursing Homes / Long-term Care Dementia Alzheimer's Disease Hospices / Palliative / End-of-Life Care U.S. Medicare Strokes / Brain Hemorrhages / Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Estate Planning / Wills Euthanasia / Right to Die

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