Abstract
Chaplaincy Today • Volume 24 Number 1 • Spring/Summer 2008 OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES, end-of-life decisions related to medical care have multiplied rapidly. Patients now are empowered with rights to refuse or to withdraw life-sustaining treatments, including artificial hydration and nutrition. Proxy decisions authorized via advance medical directives have become a part of our medical routine. Organ and tissue donor networks routinely encourage registration. Each of these choices has developed within the tension of technological advances as well as personal and societal values that often have required legal interpretation.
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