Submitted on Sunday 25th September 2011
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
End Euthanasia on the basis of cost. Law on Do Not Resuscitate
Create law that medical professionals must resuscitate, give CPR and intubate (breathing tube) any and all patients irrespective of age, disability or illness. Patients will have the right and preservation to life in hospitals. Patients and patient's wife and adult children to have the right in law to demand life-preserving medication and CPR.
This law to supercede all other laws and guidelines.
Any patient demanding Do Not Resuscitate / Do not intubate to have such rights only by their prior written consent, counter-signed by a legal professional and the patient’s spouse / civil partner / children altogether. There must be this Living Will before admission to hospital. The patient must be deemed mentally competent. No-one else can consent to their DNR / Do not Intubate on their behalf. A Living Will cannot be gained by a patient once admitted to hospital by the enactment of this Act/Bill.
e petition replacing previous one on DNR has no signature but my own.
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