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    Challenges→The wishes of EAS expressed in her advance directive ought to control decisions about FDS's life, even at the cost of FDS's good.

    Advance directives derive their authority from autonomy, but autonomy norms require that the directive-issuer and the person bound by it share sufficient psychological unity to constitute a single deliberating agent.

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    Key Terms

    Advance directives(medical ethics and end-of-life decisions)
    Written instructions you create now about what medical care you want (or don't want) if you become unable to make decisions later, like if you're in a coma.
    Authority (derives authority from)(ethics and decision-making)
    The legitimate power or right to make something valid or binding; here it means advance directives are considered valid *because* they come from your autonomous choices.
    Deliberating agent(ethics and philosophy of action)
    A person who thinks carefully through choices and makes decisions based on reasoning.
    Norms (autonomy norms)(ethics and social philosophy)
    Standards or rules that are considered appropriate or required; autonomy norms are the principles we think should guide how autonomous choices work.

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    Psychological unity(personal identity and medical ethics)
    A continuous sense of being the same person over time—having the same memories, values, personality, and way of thinking that connect your past self to your present self.
    autonomy(Used to ground worker rights to self-governance in the workplace)
    The right to freely determine one's own actions

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