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Why do you think people even bother with advance directives?
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I mean, if one chooses not to be kept alive artificially,
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why doesn't one just communicate that
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to family and friends and next of kin?
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Why go to all the trouble of executing a legal document?
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That seems like such a to-do, does it not?
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One reason might be to save a loved one
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from making an excruciating moral decision.
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I have an advance directive.
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Do you know why?
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Because, should I find myself
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hooked up to a bloody machine one day,