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To: RS

**Sorry, if you haven't put it in writing, and even if you have, if anyone disputes it **

Only if they dispute that you wanted to live. If they dispute that you wanted to die, you still die.


1,048 posted on 03/18/2005 10:57:56 AM PST by ilovew ("Look at me! I'm sweet and lovable." I LOVE Rummy!!!)
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To: ilovew
"(a) is one in which the State court authorizes or directs the withholding or withdrawal of food or fluids or medical treatment necessary to sustain the incapacitated person's life, but does not include a claim or cause of action in which no party disputes, and the court finds, that the incapacitated person, while having capacity, had executed a written advance directive valid under applicable law that clearly authorized the withholding or withdrawal of food or fluids or medical treatment in the applicable circumstances.

If they don't find one, it appears that any "individual who has some significant relationship" can get it sent up. Obviously a court will also have to decide what "some significant relationship" means ... ex-husband ? present secret lover? priest?

1,076 posted on 03/18/2005 11:13:30 AM PST by RS (Keeping them honest since 1998)
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