Legal Opinion
Eichner v. Dillon
New York Court of Appeals
Decided March 31, 1981PublishedCited by 231 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Wachtler, J.
In these two cases the guardians of incompetent patients objected to the continued use of medical treatments or measures to prolong the lives of the patients who were diagnosed as fatally ill with no reasonable chance of recovery. In Matter of Eichner, Brother Fox, an 83-year-old member of the Society of Mary, was being maintained by a respirator in a permanent vegetative state. The local director of the society applied to have the respirator removed on the ground that it was against the patient’s wishes as expressed prior to his becoming incompetent. In Matter…
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