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"I No Longer Have a Living Will" |
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Claire Rayner, the writer and broadcaster who was the best known advocate for Living Wills, told Penny Wark (The Times, 3 Dec. 03) that when last July she was taken to intensive care her family were twice told that she would not survive. "There were two moments when they could have - if they had wanted to invoke the living will - pulled out the plugs. They didn't - they gave me another go and I came through. So I no longer have a living will." The Mental Incapacity Bill would make advance directives legally enforceable, with penalties for concealing one.
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