This paper explores the disjuncture between medico‐legal trajectories of living and dying, in which lives start and stop, and the cyclic comings and goings of Buddhist and Hindu bodies. Drawing on fieldwork with Buddhist and Hindu communities in Adelaide, South Australia, I attend to the multiple temporalities that become implicated in end‐of‐life decision‐making about how and when a person may die. Thus, I reorient advance care planning from the linear projection of a single life towards cyclic considerations of the life course. In regarding life and death as ongoing I make space for temporalities of living and dying that run counter to public policy instruments, which focus on an irrevocable, yet calculable, end to life. I demonstrate how advance care planning processes and documents that construct the life course as advancing in a singular, linear and predictable trajectory overlook the multiple temporalities and directions that lives and deaths may take.

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为死亡做好准备：预先护理指示和周期性时间变化

本文探讨了生死的法医学轨迹之间的分离，即生命的开始和停止，以及佛教徒和印度教徒身体的周期性进出。利用与南澳大利亚州阿德莱德的佛教徒和印度教徒社区进行的实地考察，我研究了多种时间因素，这些因素牵涉到生命终结有关人如何死亡以及何时死亡的决策。因此，我将预先护理计划从单一生命的线性投影调整为生命过程的循环考虑。在将生与死视为持续进行时，我为生存和死亡的暂时性留出了空间，这些暂时性与公共政策工具背道而驰，后者侧重于不可挽回但可计算的生命终结。我将演示如何将高级护理计划流程和文档以独特的方式构成生命历程，