[sekm]

> she has the ability and right to make decisions influencing her own life and death.

True, but at the end of the day her decision is likely to rest on the advice given to her from an authority. If the doctor isn't following the proposed rules, then it makes the entire thing a fiasco. I guess I should be stressing how important the doctor's role is in the decision process of the patient.

Just a side note, wouldn't the polar opposite of my mentioned case, be where a person tells another person that if they sign a contract then they will kill them?