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The article focuses on the desire of aging baby boomers to control their end-of-life care. It states that end-of-life care activists aims to push state legislation in requiring health-care professional to advise terminally ill patients and their families on palliative care and medical choices that will relieve and prevent patients' suffering. It also mentions the growing phenomenon called physician orders for life-sustaining treatment (POLST). INSETS: Let's Talk About the End;Dying at Home State by State, 2005-2009.

The article reports that organ and tissue donation makes available scarce resources with the potential to improve the life and health of recipients in Australia. Different ethical and legal considerations apply to non-regenerative, as against regenerative, tissue donation. The law plays a pivotal role in regulating the circumstances in which organs are made available for both transplantation and research.

Focuses on a law in Alberta that enables residents to communicate in advance their wishes regarding resuscitation. The standard procedure in hospitals to ask patients or families for their position on medical resuscitation; The Personal Directives Act not including a right to euthanasia or assisted suicide; How a personal directive is similar to a living will; Hanna lawyer Eugene Kush's concern for economic aspects of health care that could influence a decision on resuscitation.