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A legal and ethical analysis of advance directive overrides is provided as no court to date has awarded damages to plaintiffs who alleged their loved one suffered "wrongful life" following a successful life-prolonging intervention.

You can choose a member of your family, such as your spouse or an adult child, a friend, or someone else you trust. You can also appoint one or more alternate agents in case the person you select as your health care agent is unavailable or unwilling to make a decision.

Advance directives are legally recognized documents and doctors must respect your known wishes, but doctors can always refuse to comply with your wishes if they have an objection of conscience or consider your wishes medically inappropriate.

The primary outcome is completion of four key ACP behaviours: identification of a surrogate decision maker, communication about goals, completing advance directives and ensuring documents are in the medical record.

Advance directives have no expiration date, so review them every five or 10 years and revise them if your situation or your health changes.

If your doctor has already written a DNR order at your request, your family may not override it. You may have named someone to speak for you, such as a health care agent. If so, this person or a legal guardian can agree to a DNR order for you.

A legal and ethical analysis of advance directive overrides is provided as no court to date has awarded damages to plaintiffs who alleged their loved one suffered "wrongful life" following a successful life-prolonging intervention.

To be legally valid, an advance decision to refuse life-sustaining treatment must be in writing, signed, and witnessed. Life-sustaining treatment is treatment that, in the view of the person providing your healthcare, is necessary to keep you alive.

False. Naming a health care agent proxy does not take away any of your authority. You always have the right, while you are still competent, to override the decision of your proxy or revoke the directive.

If there is evidence to suggest the person has changed his or her mind for example, if they have done something that goes against the advance directivethis would make the advance directive invalid.