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A Complete guide to living wills, durable power of attorney for medical consent, and other valuable information necessary to give you the ability to limit or refuse medical consent. Full text of the Supreme Court landmark case Cruzan, as well as the authors personal family struggles with refusing medical consent.

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The authors, Lee R. Kerr is a practicing Attorney and a Delnetta J. Kerr is a Nurse.Their combined experience, background, and education gives them a unique perspective on issues surrounding the protection of the right to a death with dignity by refusing unwanted or undesirable medical care. Ms. Kerr is a licensed practical nurse, an emergency medical technician, and has worked with death and dying for many years. She is also experienced a personal family tragedy of living with the slow agonizing dying process of her mother, who was institutionalized for 30 years from a degenerative neurological disease, the last 17 of which were spent in a comatose of state, with tube feedings and hydration. Ms. Kerr has experienced in the most personal sense the need for advanced planning and action regarding limiting or refusing medical consent while still competent, so your wishes and instructions will be followed in the unfortunate event that you should ever become incompetent and incapable of making your wishes or desires known and legally enforceable. Mr. Kerr is also uniquely qualified on both the human and legal issues surrounding this critically important issue. Mr. Kerr spent several years as a police officer and emergency medical technician, working with death and dying on a daily basis, prior to returning to graduate school and becoming a lawyer. Mr. Kerr is presently a part-time county prosecutor and has a general practice of law in Montana.

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