If the person whom you designate to be your healthcare proxy declines that responsibility:
a. the law of intestacy replaces the healthcare proxy.
b. the patient is left on life support until they expire.
c. the family will have to go to court to determine who the guardian is.
d. interpretation of the advance directives is left up to the doctor.
a. the law of intestacy replaces the healthcare proxy.
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