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We are finding a cycle, a spate of living will or advance directive promos. Surging after the Terri atrocity, periodically they return. As a caveat, living wills can be good, can be not quite good. But they are pushed and usually accompanied by media falsehoods about what happened to Terri. This sounds Good but is not great.

Good cited the dismal case of Terry Schiavo, the Florida woman at the center of a national debate who eventually died 13 days after her feeding tube was removed in 2005. Schiavo, 41, had been comatose for about seven years, and her final days were embroiled in painful legal battles between members of her family.

“We have no earthly idea what Ms. Schiavo wanted, and no one ever will,” Good said.............

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