The Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life

Nancy Berlinger is a Research Scholar at The Hastings Center and teaches ethics at the Yale University School of Nursing. She directed the Hastings Center project that produced the revised and expanded second edition of the Guidelines. Bruce Jennings is Director of Bioethics at the Center for Humans and Nature and teaches ethics at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is an elected Fellow of The Hastings Center and was a co-author of the first edition of the Guidelines in 1987. Susan M. Wolf is McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy at the University of Minnesota, and a Faculty Member in the University's Center for Bioethics. She is an elected Member of the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine, elected Fellow of the AAAS, and elected Fellow of The Hastings Center. She directed the Hastings Center project that produced the first edition of the Guidelines in 1987, and was principal author of that work.