Saunders v. State

OPINION OF THE COURT

Bernard F. McCaffrey, J.

This matter concerns a document entitled, "Instructions Relating to Medical Treatment and Death/Refusal of Further Care” (also known as Living Will) of Selma L. Saunders who now asks the court, as a matter of first impression, to rule upon the proposed Living Will and interpret said will and judicially implement her written desires and instructions.

Reduced to its simplest terms a Living Will is a document in which one states, while in good health, what measures he or she does not want used to extend one’s life when one is dying.

The applicant, Selma…