Jesse’s Law, passed in Arizona as a reaction to a surrogate acting against the interests of a specific patient, now prevents intensivists and surrogates who are acting appropriately from discontinuing unwanted interventions in dying hospice patients. The law prohibits statutory surrogates from authorizing discontinuance of artificial nutrition and hydration unless they can present “clear and convincing evidence” to a court that the patient would agree. This law is causing undue harm to hospice patients at end of life by delaying withdrawal of unwanted medical interventions, interfering with accepted and established surrogate decision-making precepts, and negating informed consent because surrogates are unaware that artificial nutrition and hydration cannot be easily discontinued after initiation. The authors offer a case example followed by an ethical analysis of this presumably unintended consequence of the law.