That authority ends at death, however, notes Franchelle Millender, an elder-law attorney in Columbia, S.C.
Benjamin notes that death has disappeared from contemporary life, safely shuffled away to the hospital, the morgue, the undertaker.
Jim Hoefler, of Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, who is the author of a recent book on death in America, notes that boomers have a fear their parents never knew: that an impersonal health-care system may hook them up to an array of beeping machines rather than admit failure.
One of the men accused of plotting to murder singer Joss Stone wrote a diary with notes including "death", "rob" and "injure", a court has heard.
Mr Goldhagen mentions the death banquet but not, she notes, the Latvian participation in it.
Mr Levesconte disclosed the level of his debt in a series of notes discovered after his death, the inquest heard.
The other two recommendations are that medical and nursing notes are kept separately and that no additions are made to notes, where the death of a person will be subject to an inquest.
But she notes that could also be related to the death of Patterson's partner several years ago and the passage of time.
She also wrote on Mrs Richards' patient notes that she was happy for the nursing staff to certify death.
Declan Buckley, who is acting on behalf of the hospital and its staff, said this was done in an attempt to remedy any shortcomings in the notes about a serious tragedy, which was the first direct maternal death at the hospital in 17 years.
As Mr. Kapadia edges us toward the abyss of Senna's death, the tragic undertones of Mr. Prost's statement and other fateful notes of premonition sound louder.
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"Although the company is naturally disappointed to be convicted of one of the charges, it notes that this was of a technical nature and not connected to Mrs Young's death, " it said.
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