The living will is a relatively new doctrine and instrument in the English Commo
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The living will is a relatively new doctrine and instrument in the English Common Law. The living will is a creation of necessity that came about due to the huge and unforeseeable medical advances that occurred in the 20th century due primarily to technological breakthroughs. Prior to this time, the common law allowed an individual to make her medical decisions only during such time as she was physically competent to do so. If and when such competency ended, the law imposed a strict protocol of persons to whom the duty of decision-making would fall. No allowances were made for what we now call advance directives. Is this an improvement of the law or do living wills and advance directives create more problem than they solve? Please use a concrete example to support your argument
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Living will is a advance document or advance directive that convey what medical treatment must be given to him if he is not able to take decision.Its giving right to an individual to take own decsion what to do ,what all medical requirement must provide to him.for example if person injured from a bad accident and not able to take decision about medical treatment during this time living will be active.
Living will has both pros and cons.
Pros. are person an choose itself his own desire.thier is no burden on his loved ones to decide medical treatment.
No regret of choosing any medical treatment because decsion is taken by his own.
For example
If thier is no one to take medical treatment decision for him than living will be very helpful which is created by him in advance.
Cons :sometimes its dictate wrong medical treatment to doctor which is not required in that situation.
Cons
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