These documents will ensure that the person's wishes for medical care, especially life-sustaining treatment, are in writing.

Is a person's decision to refuse life-sustaining treatment and return home to die considered suicide?

You have to convince a judge to discontinue life-sustaining treatment, which is extremely difficult.

Nor does it matter what your reasons are for rejecting life-sustaining treatment.

Hospitals interpret it to mean that if a patient has a living will, then life-sustaining treatment can be withdrawn.

These wishes can include the desire to withdraw life-sustaining treatment if there is no hope of recovery.

A living will spells out your preferences about certain kinds of life-sustaining treatments.

Patients already have a right to refuse life-sustaining treatment, the committee said in a report.

Last summer the court said every citizen has the right to refuse or withdraw life-sustaining treatment.

"It is really not a case of life-sustaining medical treatment."