What constitutes a "refusal" in that case? Seven-year-old second-hand hearsay? No. Must be obvious, must be by the person, the person must be sane and conscious and the request must be made at the current time.
Contracts -- advance medical directives -- where they allow the withdrawal of basic sustenance, food and water. Or where they allow injections or active therapies that cause or speed death -- those are death contracts. Assisted suicide. Illegal, immoral, a denial of basic civl rights under the US Constitution.
It wasn't second-hand, and it wasn't, legally, 'hearsay'.
Assisted suicide. Illegal, immoral, a denial of basic civl rights under the US Constitution.
That's your opinion. I happen to think that the right to refuse medical treatment is pretty fundamental. There is no qualitative difference between the state forcing a person to have a feeding tube, and the state forcing schoolchildren to take ritalin. Either both are acceptable, or neither are acceptable.