The phrase "competent to live" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means having the ability or skill to survive or function in life. Example: She was a competent worker, able to handle any task assigned to her. But after the accident, she was no longer competent to live on her own and needed assistance.
It protects the freedom of all mentally competent individuals to live and shape their own lives in accordance with their own preferences and beliefs, so long as they do not harm others in the process.
The experience of managing their life without family members' support made participants competent enough to live alone after the death of their parents.
Similarly, it has to be competent to be credible.
Under it, helping someone to end his life would become lawful, provided the patient was adult (over the age of 18), terminally ill (had only a few months left to live), mentally competent, was suffering unbearably and had made a written request for such assistance.
The bill, had it passed, would have licensed doctors to assist in the deaths of terminally-ill people who had less than six months to live, were mentally competent and requested such assistance.
Wills uses this episode to make his central point: "The pope alone, we are now asked to accept, is competent to tell Christian people how to live...
Under the proposal, two California physicians must first determine that a patient has six months or less to live and is mentally competent.
Under the state's voter-approved Death with Dignity Act, a terminally ill patient may take the lethal drugs if two doctors agree that the person has less than six months to live and is mentally competent to decide whether to end his life.
Under the state's so-called Death with Dignity Act, a terminally ill patient may take the lethal drugs if two doctors agree the person has less than six months to live and is mentally competent to make the decision to end his or her life.
Under the state's so-called Death with Dignity Act, which was passed by voters in 1994 and took effect in 1997 after legal challenges, a terminally ill patient may take the lethal drugs if two doctors agree that the person has less than six months to live and is mentally competent to make the decision to end his life.
