How old is old enough to decide whether to live or die? - The Telegraph 17th November 2008

Jacqui Grove wavered only once. For a fleeting second, she agonised. ”Should we be trying every single thing, anything that might produce a miracle and save Josie’s life?” she asked herself. Before her on the table sat yet another letter from a well-meaning stranger. In it the author, who had read of Jacqui’s daughter’s decision to refuse further medical treatment, leave hospital and go home to her family to die, urged her to talk Josie into changing her mind, to try yet one more form of untested alternative medicine.

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