[Cantor provides] both a cogent and provocative text and prodigious references. -The New England Journal of Medicine

Cantor develops a careful and accessible ethic of autonomy and dignity regarding forgoing life-prolonging medical treatment …
-Ethics

A thoughtful, informative and sensitive text …
-European Medical Journal

Professor Cantor of Rutgers University School of Law has created a scholarly and sophisticated, yet quite accessible, legal analysis of the subject of advance directives … detailed, exhaustively referenced …
-The Florida Bar Journal

This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in learning about advance directives for health care. -Doody’s Health Sciences Book Review Journal

Cantor provides a very thorough, reliable, and readable guide …
-Robert M. Veatch, Director, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University

Cantor examines the medical, legal, and moral issues surrounding advance medical directives-those devices aimed at controlling medical intervention during the dying process after the patient is no longer competent.