MATTER OF STORAR


78 A.D.2d 1013 (1980)

In the Matter of John Storar

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Fourth Department.

November 13, 1980


Order affirmed, without costs.

Memorandum:

We note that it is generally recognized that terminally ill competent adults, whose medical experts agree that cure cannot be effected even by extraordinary treatment which may at best give only a short extension of life, have an absolute right to decline to receive such treatment, absent countervailing State interests. We hold that on the request and plea of his mother who is his closest relative and committee, John...

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