People often change their minds about treatment when close to death.
Advance directives only tell us what people felt in the past. Involving Parliament, laws, police, magistrates, judges, jury and prisons would be an utterly disastrous way to care for the dying. New legislation is unnecessary, undesirable, inappropriate and will probably be unhelpful. The British Medical Association agrees that Living Wills need no force of law and recently voted against euthanasia by three to one. The pro-euthanasia lobby sees legalised Living Wills as a vital next step to acceptance of euthanasia.