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Welcome to the Dalhousie End-of-Life Project's web site.
Would you like to know more about living wills? Are they legally binding documents? Do health care providers have to follow the wishes of family members of dying incompetent patients?
Would you like to know more about the law on the withholding and withdrawal of life support? Who decides when to stop? Can patients demand that treatment be stopped? That it be continued?
Would you like to know more about the law on the administration of potentially life-shortening palliative interventions? Is it legal for a health care provider to give ever-increasing doses of pain medication to treat a patient's pain even though this may shorten the patient's life?
On this web site we look at these and other questions about end of life law and policy in Canada. There's information about advance directives, palliative interventions, and the withholding and withdrawal of potentially life-sustaining treatment. There are explanations of the law on various aspects of end of life care, answers to "Frequently Asked Questions", an online library, reports on research conducted by the project team, a glossary, and links to related sites with other useful information.
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