Opinion: Every senator should fill out a legislative advance directive
Advance directives were born in the Senate. Now they can help preserve the dignity of its aging members.
Advance directives were born in the Senate. Now they can help preserve the dignity of its aging members.
In Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, the parents of Nancy Cruzan, a young woman who had been left in a permanent vegetative state after a car accident, wanted the right to remove her life support. In 1990, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of her parents, affirming the constitutional right to refuse life-sustaining treatment.
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