An Essay Arguing That Advanced Directives Should Be Taken Into Account

Advance Directives are the that tools enable informed adult patients to demand a certain plan of action regarding their treatment in case they lose the medical decision-making ability. One question concerning the usage of the advance directions is the case where a person who is going through some psychological change is regarded as a distinct entity from the one who signed the directive. If that is so, then the authority of the directive – which is supposed to be limited to the person who has completed it and not to his new identity – is right to be questioned. This is known as the dilemma of being someone else (Nys, 2013).