Advance directives are oral or preferably written statements addressed to health workers and significant others, where a person expresses the treatments you want or do not want to apply in various future medical circumstances, to lead the medical decision making when she no longer has the ability to express herself. They are also statements that a person may designate another trusted that, in these circumstances, act as your agent in making decisions about your health care and on the disposition of his body after his death certified. At present, the Advance directives are legally regulated in a number of countries, including Spain. But citizens in general are not having access to a clear ethical debate revolves around its justification, design and implementation. Picking the arguments that have been offered in the various countries that have proposed or introduced, with this book the ...read more