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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (41522)	3/21/2017 1:57:24 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Recommended By i-node Respond to of 42652

Involuntary. You need an advance directive from a competent person for it to be voluntary. The only sticky area would be if the party subsequently was overtaken by dementia and, while not fully himself, tried to retract the directive. In that case I think the system must honor the retraction, even from an incompetent person. There's no way to know for sure that he was not capable of reassessing his situation. Of course, a smart advance directive would address all that so the system would not have to make such judgments.