The Nation - News from Aug. 12, 1987
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New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo signed into law the nation’s first do-not-resuscitate bill, allowing patients suffering cardiac and respiratory arrest to choose not to be revived. The law presumes that every patient facing a heart attack wants to be resuscitated unless the patient or a family member on the patient’s behalf consents to a do-not-resuscitate order. It allows patients to make a decision about resuscitation in advance, or to appoint someone to decide on their behalf in the event they lose the ability to decide.
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