Superintendent of Belcher town State School v. Saikewicz, 370 N.E. 2d 417, 433 (Mass. 1977).
2.
KindreganC.P., “The Court as a Forum for Life and Death Decisions,”Symposium, Mental Incompetents and the Right to Die, 11 Suffolk U. L. Rev 919–973 (1977). (This issue also includes articles by the attorneys on each side of the Saikewicz case.)
3.
In re Quinlan, 70 N.J. 10, 355 A.2d 647 (1976); seeAnnasG.J.KarenAnn Quinlan: Legal Comfort for Physicians, Hastings Center Report (June 1976).
4.
That court found that a decision to disconnect Karen Ann Quinlan's respirator would be proper because “this decision should be accepted by a society the overwhelming majority of whose members would, we think, in similar circumstances, exercise such a choice in the same way for themselves or for those closest to them.”
5.
NardiGeorge M.D., as quoted by KnoxRichard, Bay State Judges and the Right to Die, Boston Globe1, 5 (Jan. 30, 1978).
6.
Id., statement of EpsteinRalph M.D.
7.
RelmanA., The Saikewicz Decision: Judges as Physicians, New England Journal of Medicine298:508 (March 2, 1978).
8.
Id. at 509.
9.
CurranW.J., The Saikewicz Decision, New England Journal of Medicine298:499 (March 2, 1978)
10.
Quoted by KnoxRichard, Live-die Question Left to Court, Boston Globe, 3 (Jan. 31, 1978).
11.
See RaibleJ., The Right to Refuse Treatment and Natural Death Legislation, Medicolegal News5(4):6–8 (Fall 1977).
