A Time to Be Born and a Time to Die: Pregnancy and End-of-Life Care.

The article discusses the reported importance of end-of-life care planning in Tennessee as of April 2014, focusing on advance directives and an individual's right to control his or her own health care. A 2013 case involving then-pregnant patient Marlise Munoz in Texas is addressed, along with the legal aspect of brain death and pregnancy. Tennessee's adoption of the Uniform Determination of Death Act is examined, along with living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care.