The Bioethics Discussion Blog agrees with the Supreme Court in the Schiavo case
“The behavior of the family, after all the legal and ethical decisions were made to allow patient autonomy through the substituted judgment of a legal surrogate, the husband, appears to be solely in the family’s own self-interest. And this behavior is wrong.”
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