Garger v. New Jersey

How later courts describe this case

• right of choice to terminate life support systems as aspect of right of privacy
• the right to privacy established in Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 85 S.Ct. 1678, 14 L.Ed.2d 510 (1965), is broad enough to encompass patient’s decision to refuse treatment in certain cases
• “Presumably [the right of personal privacy recognized by the United States Supreme Court in Griswold v. Connecticut, supra,] is broad enough to encompass a patient’s decision to decline medical treatment under certain circumstances”