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Commission backs rights of patients in life support decisions
The President's Commission on Ethical Problems in Medicine says competent patients may end life sustaining therapy or forgo resuscitation even if it hastens death. If incapacity occurs, families or a designated representative decide, with ethics committees to review critical cases and ensure alternatives are considered.
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