title: The living will--are you for or against?
abstract: A lecturer in nursing discusses whether it is right to sustain life long beyond the dictates of nature merely because we have the medical technology to do so. He argues that nurses should become more involved in the national and legal debates about living wills and that ethics need to evolve and change along with changes in medical science.
authors.affiliation: University of Sheffield.
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bassett
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D016224:Living Wills / Q000941:ethics*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D012297:Right to Die / Q000941:ethics*; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000592:standards; D006113:United Kingdom