Reflections on the Development of Advance Directives in Hong Kong

The paper will start with a brief description of the development of advance directives (AD) in Hong Kong. Then, three issues will be discussed: whether Hong Kong should enact specific legislation on AD, whether an advance refusal of oral feeding should be respected, and whether AD should be widely promoted among healthy members of the public in Hong Kong. The paper concludes with the ways forward. The conclusions presented are my own.