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Do those who cannot speak really have a voice?

Betty Dew
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Abstract

Joseph Finelli, after a heart transplant, is being artificially maintained by medications and a gastrostomy tube (G-tube). He is not brain dead nor in a persistent vegetative state. In my role as court-appointed Guardian ad Litem (GAL-court investigator), it appears to me that Mr. Finelli is being treated against his stated goals and values. After applying the substituted judgment factors, I recommend the withdrawal of the medication which sustains his life. His family adamantly opposes my position.

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Betty Dew. 1992. Do those who cannot speak really have a voice?. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.1992.tb01210.x

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