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Can I authorize my patient advocate to decide to withhold or withdraw food and water administered through tubes?

April 26, 2017administered advocate authorize decide food patient tubes water withdraw

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Can I authorize my patient advocate to decide to withhold or withdraw food and water administered through tubes?

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Yes. If you wish to give your patient advocate power to have tube feeding withheld or withdrawn in the event you become terminally ill or permanently unconscious, you should state this in the document or in a living will.