And in Minnesota, the statutes concerning the withdrawal of oral nutrition and hydration apply only to directives executed before Aug. 1, 1998, not to ones executed since then.
Whether health care professionals should respect a properly executed advance directive (AD) refusing life support in late-stage dementia even if the patient seems contented, is an ethically contested issue.
Ms Schiavo did not have a formal, written, executed advance directive.
Of the advance directives that have been executed, many, if not most, are too vague to be truly useful.
His choice of ambassador to the Soviet Union was the dissident Rudolf Slansky, the namesake son of a former head of the Czechoslovak Communist Party who had been executed on directives from Moscow.
The report concludes that "a person-centered, family-oriented approach that honors individual preferences and promotes quality of life through the end of life should be a national priority". But how does one go about doing so given that only an estimated 25-30% of Americans have executed advance directives.
Microsoft's tools included "certain 'keywords' and 'compiler directives' that could only be executed properly by Microsoft's version of the Java runtime environment for Windows".
My husband had executed an advance medical directive several years earlier in which renal dialysis had been specifically excluded, so this was not a hasty decision.
Consistently executed the synergy of company directives.
Simultaneously an ivory inventory and DNA analysis was commissioned, conducted by Stop Ivory, the Kenya Wildlife Service and its partners, so President Uhuru Kenyatta's directive to destroy all ivory stocks can be executed.
Mice were kept on water and standard laboratory chow ad libitum and all experiments were executed in accordance with German legislation and the EU-directive 2010/63/EU.
