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Focuses on laws in Israel regarding the withdrawal of medical treatment at the end of life, for those who do not wish to be kept alive by ventilators. Comments on Israeli laws and how they differ from those in the Western world; Comparison between withholding treatment at the end of life to withdrawing treatment already started to keep one alive; Description of end of life care in Israel; Way that the laws prohibit the termination of continuous medical care, such as being on a mechanical ventilator, but permits the termination of discrete medical care; Use of timers on ventilators in order to transform ventilators from continuous to discrete medical care, and thus allow for termination; Bioethical analysis of Israeli laws.

Looks at how doctors should respond to patients who have the capacity to make their own medical decisions yet refuse treatment that is in their interest. Question regarding whether or not societies should support the right of patients to make their own medical decisions; Discussion of how many countries allow patients who have decisional capacity to refuse treatment; Analysis of the Israeli Patients Rights Act, which allows clinicians, under specified conditions, to force treatment on patients who have decisional capacity; View that clinicians need not appeal to ethicists or courts to determine treatment but should appeal to an appropriate surrogate.