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The Death Of The Living Will, Carl E. Schneider, Angela Fagerlin
The Death Of The Living Will, Carl E. Schneider, Angela Fagerlin
Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)
Enough. The living will has failed, and it is time to say so.
We should have known it would fail: A notable but neglected psychological literature always provided arresting reasons to expect the policy of living wills to misfire. Given their alluring potential, perhaps they were worth trying. But a crescendoing empirical literature and persistent clinical disappointments reveal that the rewards of the campaign to promote living wills do not justify its costs.