MOLST, or Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, is a form that allows people to make their medical wishes known to health profressionals.

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The practice has been condemned by human rights groups and the American Medical Association, which says every patient has the right to refuse even life-sustaining treatment.

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There are strong arguments against this sort of assisted suicide, whether it takes the form of the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment or of more active measures such as the administration of lethal injections.

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