NSW: Life support should be family hands - patient's son

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: November 12, 2004 | Copyright information

AAP General News (Australia)
11-12-2004
NSW: Life support should be family hands - patient's son

The son of ISAAC MESSIHA says the decision to turn off life support systems should
be in the hands of a patient's family and not the courts.

Seventy-five-year-old MR MESSIHA died last night in the intensive care unit of St George
Hospital in southern Sydney, soon after his life support system was switched off.

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