Article: Do You Have The Right To A Natural Death
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Do You Have The Right To A Natural Death
Your Rights
You have a basic right to Control The Decisions about your medical care, including the decision to have extraordinary means or artificial nutrition or hydration withheld or withdrawn if your Condition Is Terminal and incurable or if you are in a persistent vegetative state.
If you are competent and Able To Communicate , you may tell your doctor that you do not want extraordinary means or artificial nutrition or hydration used to keep you alive if there is no reasonable hope of recovery.
What happens if you are not competent or able to communicate this decision? You may Decide Ahead of Time with a living will. If you do not have a living will, someone else may have to decide for you.
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