Where there's a will
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Where there's a will

Jane McDonald is dying, but in an ITV documentary to be shown next week she is seen campaigning fearlessly for living wills - also known as advance directives - to be made as legally watertight as ordinary wills

ITS ALL RIGHT. If the metastases are so bad that it will make things unbearable, we won’t bother to resuscitate you. We do that for all cancer patients.’

Nursing Standard. 12, 26, 14-14. doi: 10.7748/ns.12.26.14.s28

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