Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1991
ISSN
0028-4793
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Language
en-US
Abstract
A legally enforceable declaration can be executed only 14 days or more after a person is diagnosed as having a terminal illness, defined as one that will cause the patient's death "imminently," whether or not life-sustaining procedures are continued. [...]even though this statute was inspired by her story, it would not have helped Quinlan, because she was not terminally ill.
Recommended Citation
George J. Annas,
The Health Care Proxy and the Living Will
,
in
324
New England Journal of Medicine
1210
(1991).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1297
Comments
From The New England Journal of Medicine, George J. Annas, The Health Care Proxy and the Living Will, Volume 324, Page 1210 Copyright ©(1991) Massachusetts Medical Society. Reprinted with permission.