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Health Care Economics and Organizations > Social Control, Formal > Jurisprudence > Wills > Living Wills

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Living Wills  

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Scope note

  • Written, witnessed declarations in which persons request that if they become disabled beyond reasonable expectation of recovery, they be allowed to die rather than be kept alive by extraordinary means. (Bioethics Thesaurus)

History note

  • 91; was see RIGHT TO DIE 1987-90; was see WILLS 1977-86

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016224

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