title: Enough. The failure of the living will.
abstract: In pursuit of the dream that patients' exercise of autonomy could extend beyond their span of competence, living wills have passed from controversy to conventional wisdom, to widely promoted policy. But the policy has not produced results, and should be abandoned.
authors.affiliation: Ann Arbor VA HSR&D Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, Program for Improving Health Care Decisions, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, USA.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fagerlin
authors.forename: Carl E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Schneider
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D016224:Living Wills; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011640:Public Policy