Discussing issues in advance care planning in the context of universal human rights and European law, this book addresses ethical, economic and legal questions associated with the end of life. Offers a transnational economic analysis of advance care planning.?
What is the situation of people who are unable to make decisions due to a physical or mental change? This book gives impulses and answers to many ethical, economical and mainly legal questions which arise and are associated with the end of life. A universal human rights approach and the analysis of the relevant European law are put in front of the presentation of the national legal situations in Italy and Germany. The most topical and controversial issues concerning advance care planning are presented as well as a transnational economic analysis on the effects of advance care planning.?
