Health authorities have proposed an amendment of existing laws to give more rights to critically ill patients in deciding whether or not to stop receiving medical treatment.

Under the legislative proposals on advance directives and dying in place, medical professionals – including those outside of medical settings – would be required to respect patients' will to end medical treatment or not be resuscitated.

The prospective amendments would safeguard medical staff from prosecutions, provided they have acted in line with patients' wishes.

What do you make of these proposals? Shall we give critically ill patients the right to end their treatment? Or is our medical system duty bound to keep patients alive no matter what?

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9:00am-9:45am: Rights of critically ill patients

9:00am-9:30am: Li Hon-Lam, Emeritus Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Philosophy

9:00am-9:30am: Stephanie Law, Executive Committee Member, The Elderly Services Association of Hong Kong

9:30am-9:45am: Daisy Cheung, Assistant Professor of Law; Deputy Director and Research Fellow at the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, The University of Hong Kong

9:30am-9:45am: David Lam, Lawmaker, Medical and Health Services functional consistuency; Specialist in General Surgery

9:45am-10:00: Hong Kong co-hosting the National Games

9:45am-10:00am: Patrick Lau, Professor, Department of Sport, Physical Education and Health, Hong Kong Baptist University