Mandated choice or mandatory choice is an approach to public policy questions in which people are required by law to state in advance whether or not they are willing to engage in a particular action. The approach contrasts with "opt-in" and "opt-out" ("presumed consent") models of policy formation.Remedying donor organ complications The approach has most frequently been applied to cadaveric organ donation,Herz, Susan. Two Steps to Three Choices: A New Approach to Mandated Choice, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (1999), 8 : 340-347 Cambridge University Press but has increasingly been considered for advance directives as well.Appel, Jacob M. The Ultimate Prescription: Make Us Decide How We Want To Die, July 30, 2009. As one bioethicisthas observed in advocating for a mandatory choice model for living wills,  "while all Americans should have a right to decide how they want their lives to end, it does not follow that they should be able to avoid confronting such a choice."
Mandated choice or mandatory choice is an approach to public policy questions in which people are required by law to state in advance whether or not they are willing to engage in a particular action. The approach contrasts with "opt-in" and "opt-out" ("presumed consent") models of policy formation.Remedying donor organ complications The approach has most frequently been applied to cadaveric organ donation,Herz, Susan. Two Steps to Three Choices: A New Approach to Mandated Choice, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (1999), 8 : 340-347 Cambridge University Press but has increasingly been considered for advance directives as well.Appel, Jacob M. The Ultimate Prescription: Make Us Decide How We Want To Die, July 30, 2009. One bioethicist, in advocating for a mandatory choice model for living wills, argues that "while all Americans should have a right to decide how they want their lives to end, it does not follow that they should be able to avoid confronting such a choice."
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