Experts fear that cynical people will die when life-prolonging treatment is within their grasp.
The document can also call for a two-physician conference before life-prolonging treatments are withdrawn.
Such cancers are considered advanced and, while life-prolonging treatment is possible, a lasting cure is unlikely.
They were opposed by right-to-life advocates who filed suit in an effort to force life-prolonging medical treatment.
Don't name names and many who can benefit from life-prolonging treatments will fall through the cracks, public-health officials responded.
This demonstrates that a doctor who deliberately withdrew life-prolonging treatment under any circumstances, and where the patient subsequently dies, could be charged with murder.
The card would allow people to set out their wish to decline life-prolonging treatment, while able to express a view.
Like Yasa, he was ageless on the surface, and could well have had several life-prolonging treatments.
Should I stop receiving life-prolonging treatment?
They both felt themselves short-changed because they had not been given the life-prolonging cell-renewal treatment on the planet Wanderer.