In re Storar

OPINION OF THE COURT

David O. Boehm, J.

In Matter ofEichner (Fox) (102 Misc 2d 184, affd 73 AD2d 431) it was established that the court has the power, upon request of a duly appointed committee, to order termination of extraordinary life-sustaining treatments being administered to a person whose affliction has rendered him permanently comatose and, therefore, unable to make an intelligent and articulate choice with respect to continuation of the treatments. The present case presents a novel and slightly more complicated question equally without precedent in New York, i.e., whether a committee…