You want to die? Get a good lawyer. If Monday's decision in the Margot Bentley case demonstrates anything, it's how the law and its exacting interpretation can change the course of one's life, or in Margot Bentley's case, one's death. Bentley is the 82-year-old Alzheimer's patient now in an Abbotsford care home. Her family, who brought a suit against the home, insisted Bentley is being kept alive by the home care staff despite instructions in a "living will" Bentley made out in 1991 asking that she was to receive "no nourishment or liquids" if there was "no reasonable expectation of recovery from extreme physical or mental disability." In 1999, when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she...
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