In a resolution on the occasion of a legal dispute about the termination of life-extending measures in the case of a stroke patient in a persistent vegetative state with cardiovascular arrest, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) clarified its decision on the 8th February 2017, referring to its judgment of the 6th February 2017. It stated that in the case of an advance directive which does not contain a sufficiently specific designation of the unwanted life-extending measures, the necessary precision may also result from the implication of a treatment or disease situation which is made explicit in the advance directive (in the legal dispute in question this was the irreversible loss of consciousness).