Satz v. Perlmutter

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• authorizing removal of respirator as desired by competent, terminally ill patient
• discontinuation of treatment would not be suicide since patient “really wants to live, but do so ... under his own power”
• “The testimony of Mr. Perlmutter * * * is that he really wants to live, but [to] do so, God and Mother Nature willing, under his own power.”
• District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).