Right - your version would be different to mine.
It is the decision of the ill one that counts - not the judge, not the euthanasia proponents, not the children, the wife. And, the state should not over-rule the specified instructions in the Living Will.
Yet, they will. All they will have to do is make a law over-riding a living will. Or, get the option that a doctor can over-rule the living will if needed. Which may already be done in Fla. according to the following.....
"They also state that advanced directives providing for treatment should not carry the same weight as directives withdrawing care, and advanced directives should not compel the physican to provide them, regardless if the patient needs them (Doty). Doty is part of the Florida Bioethics Network as well as Project Grace. One of the changes in the law in CB/CB/SB 2228 includes the Bioethics Network as part of the process of withdrawing care. "
What is the source of your quote? I certainly don't agree with that. What the heck if the 'Bioethics Network'?
The Courts can and do enforce the wishes of the declarant. They should not become the instrument of some 'social policy' either way. I hope we can agree on that.