People ex rel. DeJesus v. Poole

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• \[T]he common-law right of self determination with respect to one's body also forms the foundation for a competent adult patient's right to refuse life-sustaining treatment even if the effect is to hasten death....\
• “[T]he common-law right of self determination with respect to one’s body also ,forms the foundation for a competent adult patient’s right to refuse life-sustaining treatment even if the effect is to hasten death_”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).