When an adult is no longer able to make decisions for himself or herself, a surrogate decision-maker must take over that role.
Where an health care and durable power of attorney steps in.
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her condition was irreversible. Recalling a statement that his wife had once made — “I don't want to be kept alive on a machine”
This was one of his wife wishes, before becoming an persistent vegetative state, after them keeping her alive after so long.
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