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Speaking for the dying life-and-death decisions in intensive care /
Seven in ten Americans over the age of sixty who require medical decisions in the final days of their life lack the capacity to make them. For many of us, our biggest, life-and-death decisions - literally - will therefore be made by someone else. They will decide whether we live or die; between long...
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