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• Living will = Patientenverfügung
• enables us to assign some people we trust the ability to decide about us in terms of medical questions if we are incapable of making decisions.
• Will where patients can precautionary (= vorsorglich) define what doctors should do or what should be denied if the concerned patient is no longer capable of making decisions, including e.g., stopping the artificial respiration and nutrition.
• everyone who is capable of making decisions and at an legal age can compose a living will and revoke it

How about a living will

Die Patientenverfügung in der BRD