This would release medical workers and patients 'loved ones from their moral quandary and the patients from their pain. For many, a living will is a completely new idea. Now in Taiwan, only hospices that primarily serve terminal cancer patients ask their patients if they want to sign "do not resuscitate" (DNR) orders.
對許多人來說，「醫囑」是前所未聞的新觀念，目前台灣只有在以收容癌症末期病患為主、並且強調「安寧死」理念的安寧病房中，才會要求病患家屬簽署「放棄急救聲明」。