Most people think advance health care directives and living wills are understandable, ironclad and followed to the letter.
Many believe the purpose is simply to help health care providers carry out a patient's wishes of how they want to be treated if they become unable to speak for themselves.
In reality, such documents are often confusing, unclear, or outright ignored.
Sadly, they can provide a vehicle that neatly fits in with the growing culture of death, which increasingly believes that people have a right-and in some cases a duty-to die.
Thanks to Obamacare and our secularized culture, there are those calling for the rationing of health care and even denying some routine treatments for patients over a certain age.
The result is that living wills, or advance directives, are often interpreted as meaning the patient would rather die than live with a serious disability.
And while the idea of advance directives may be well-intentioned, they often fall far short of the mark.
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