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Can the hospital switch off a life support machine without consent?
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Often hospitals have a group called an Ethics Committee. If the healthcare workers taking care of a patient think that the family's reluctance to take the patient off life support is harming the patient or causing the patient to suffer, they can submit a claim to the ethics committee. The committee then decides whether or not to intervene. Not all hospitals have ethics committees, and there aren't many circumstances where one is needed.
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