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Panel OKs end-of-life bills
PIERRE � Close friends should be added to the list of people who can be consulted to help make medical decisions for incapacitated people, a South Dakota Senate committee decided Monday. State law allows people to sign living wills that spell out what treatment doctors should provide in cases where death is imminent and they are unconscious and unable to communicate.People also can sign a durable power of attorney designating someone who can make those medical decisions in such cases.But in cases where people have not signed a living will or a durable power of attorney, doctors are supposed to consult relatives to determine what care to provide for incapacitated patients. Doctors are supposed to consult, in order, a patient's spouse, adult child, parent, adult sibling or adult uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces or nephews.SB74 would provide that if no relative is available, doctors could consult a patient's close friend, defined in the bill as someone who has provided significant care, has maintained regular contact and is familiar with the patient's activities, health and religious or moral beliefs.The Senate Judiciary Committee also approved SB75 and SB76, which seek to clarify and simplify state laws dealing with living wills and decisions on whether to provide artificial food and water to an incapacitated patient who is terminally ill.The three bills next go to the full Senate.The measures' main sponsor, Sen.
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