At the moment, notaries are frequently approached with the question of whether living wills need to be adapted against the background of the Corona pandemic. Standard living wills often contain the sentence:
“... that, in particular, artificial respiration or artificial hydration should no longer be given if I am in all probability inevitably in an immediate dying process or I am in the terminal stage of an incurable terminal illness, even if the time of death is not yet foreseeable.”
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