Made autonomous decision about their healthcare

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Express this information in paragraph form with no numbers:

1. The patient, while capable, made an autonomous decision about their healthcare and documented it in a living will.

2. The patient suffers a stroke and becomes incapacitated, unable to make or express decisions.

3. The next of kin, as the patient's proxy, is expected to honor the patient's wishes as expressed in the living will.

4. The proxy refuses to honor the living will, creating an ethical and legal conflict.

5. The ethical issue is the conflict between the patient's autonomy (their right to decide their own healthcare) and the proxy's refusal to honor this.

6. The legal issue is the potential violation of the patient's rights as expressed in the living will. In such cases, it's often necessary to involve legal and ethical consultants or committees to resolve the conflict, always aiming to respect the patient's autonomy as much as possible.

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