There's a distinction, then, between what the government is trying to do in this particular section of the legislation, which is inserting the issue of advance consent as a supposed alternative to the idea of advance directives. That is a narrower construing of the idea of an advance directive, in that it doesn't prescribe specific conditions on which someone else needs to rule in the abstract on whether or not the conditions that have been put in place in advance apply. Rather, it deals with the question of a person setting a specific date. It might be a person today saying, “On January 30”.
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