Delegalizing Advance Directives — Facilitating Advance Care Planning

When Luis Kutner, a human rights lawyer, first proposed the idea of the "living will" in 1969, he conceptualized it as a document establishing a trust, with the patient as the beneficiary and physicians as trustees. Kutner expected that such a document would be signed by two witnesses, notarized,…

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