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life support
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life support noun artificial maintenance of life, conninuance of life through medical equipment, extension of life by technological means, sustenance of life by artificial means Generally: being kept alive, fostering of life, life retention, preservation of life, prolongation of existence
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It is quite common, for example, for people to write a living will saying that they do not want to be kept alive on artificial life supports if they have no hope of recovery.
What Does A Living Will Declare? by David Willis / Finance and Investment community
Italian law has a very broad definition of euthanasia for a Western society, one that includes withdrawal of artificial life support (although this is changing as a result of the Welby case).
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Quinlan was kept alive only by the use of artificial life support machinery that her husband and physicians sought to discontinue.
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