Legal Situation By Country
Note: Some of the countries listed below are not in common law jurisdictions in variance to the scope of this Wikipedia page. Many of them are in the European Union, where civil law predominates. This recent paper summarizes advance health care legislation in the European Union.
Read more about this topic: Advance Health Care Directive
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