Terminally ill patients in Israel can now refuse life-sustaining treatment
What has been clear especially since 1990 in the U.S. (when the Supreme Court ruled on Nancy Cruzan), any competent adult can refuse any medical treatment.
Not so in Israel; that is, until Friday. Then, a new law went into effect, according to United Press International/Ynet News. The patient must have fewer than six months to live, but if not competent, can leave instructions or ask another person to have power of attorney.
Patients in Israel can still insist that their doctors provide "futile" treatment, however.
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