Did the doctors do the right thing by forcing dax

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Question: Should Dax Cowart have been allowed to refuse life-sustaining treatment? In particular, do you believe that he was competent to make decisions, i.e. did he have decisional capacity, or did the pain he was experiencing render him incompetent to make a knowledgeable and rational decision about his life? More generally, did the doctors do the right thing by forcing Dax to have life-saving treatment, given that he was happy to be alive, in the end? Why or why not?

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