Refusing life-sustaining treatment for incompetent patients: mere existence or a quality life?
D016223:Advance Directives; D002961:Civil Rights; D003657:Decision Making; D005066:Euthanasia, Passive; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D033222:Judicial Role; D007603:Jurisprudence; D016743:Mental Competency; D010146:Pain; D018458:Persistent Vegetative State; D019989:Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D011379:Prognosis; D011788:Quality of Life; D012297:Right to Die; D012306:Risk; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012928:Social Desirability; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D020458:Third-Party Consent; D016312:Treatment Refusal; D014481:United States; D028761:Withholding Treatment
Death and Euthanasia; Legal Approach