Dying with Dignity: Difficult Times, Difficult Choices : Hearing Before Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, October 1, 1985 |
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Page 3 - If I should have an incurable or irreversible condition that will cause my death within a relatively short time, and if I am unable to make decisions regarding my medical treatment, I direct my attending physician to withhold or withdraw procedures that merely prolong the dying process and are not necessary to my comfort or to alleviate pain.
Page 11 - Nothing in this utterance suggests that Justice Brandeis thought an individual possessed these rights only as to sensible beliefs, valid thoughts, reasonable emotions, or well-founded sensations. I suggest he intended to include a great many foolish, unreasonable and even absurd ideas which do not conform, such as refusing medical treatment even at great risk.
Page 21 - Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode. Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, in the years when elections are held in these States.
Page 95 - Section 2(a). (3)"HeaIth-care provider" means a person who is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized by the law of this State to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession. (4)"Life-sustaining treatment...
Page 48 - A had an advance directive, such as a "living will" or durable power of attorney, that might also yield clues as to his desires.
Page 97 - We refer to the medical circumstance in which the disease is "irreversible" in the sense that no known therapeutic measures can be effective in reversing the course of illness; the physiologic status of the patient is "irreparable...
Page 4 - ... When dealing with a kind of ethic about which nothing really appropriate can be said, it is best to say nothing. But this does not mean that we must be silent, for as Wittgenstein might have said, although nothing can be directly said about such a morality, something concerning it can yet be revealed, and one of the ways in which this can be done is— as strange as this might at first seem— by saying all that can sincerely and cogently be said in defence and in favor of its contradictory thesis....
Page 17 - Hospice care implies a continuum of appropriate institutional and home care, available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The focus is on the patient and the family rather than the disease. The aim is not to extend life but to improve the quality of the life that remains.
Page 12 - Kabnick, Informed Consent to Medical Treatment: An Analysis of Recent Legislation...