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Charleston Area Medical Center staff who treat, counsel and comfort the dying and their families will try to initiate a plan Nov. 29 with a case study presentation, a discussion of the ethics behind end-of-life choices and steps on completing a living will or medical power-of-attorney form.
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Some question how useful a living will actually is. A research paper titled “Enough: the Failure of the Living Will,” published in 2004 by the bioethics-focused Hastings Center in New York, suggested that living wills are hard to understand, afford and enforce.
CAMC event to cover end-of-life planning
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THE High Court has been asked to decide whether severely disabled children can sue over medical negligence which resulted in their birth rather than abortion.
In a landmark hearing, two disabled children, one now a young woman and the other a three-year-old girl, are seeking the right to sue their mothers' doctors for wrongful life.
One of the claims has been brought by Sydney woman Alexia Harriton, 24, who was born deaf, blind, physically and mentally disabled and not expected to live more than six months.
She now requires 24 hour a day care.
Disabled suing over 'wrongful life'
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