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Schiavo Case Sparks Interest in Living Wills

The legal battle over Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged Florida woman whose life-sustaining feeding tube was removed Friday, has sparked new interest in the legal end-of-life directives known as living wills. NPR's Michele Norris discusses common questions about living wills with Dr. Barry Baines, associate medical director for Hospice of the Twin Cities and author of Ethical Wills: Putting Your Values on Paper.

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