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Majority of Hongkongers willing to sign document setting out end-of-life treatment, survey finds

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More than 60 per cent of Hongkongers wish to sign a document that gives more control on how they spend their final moments when they are terminally ill, the city’s first territory-wide end-of-life survey has found. The findings are set to reignite the debate on whether the government should enact a law to ensure a patient’s will to die peacefully will be respected by his or her family and doctor. Patients can sign a document called advance directives under the supervision of a...

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