Lee wins right to have life support switched off after battle with her Christian parents.

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A terminally ill 28-year-old woman has been granted the right to die by a judge after a dramatic legal battle with her parents.

Grace Sung Eun Lee, a bank manager from New York who has terminal brain cancer, had told her parents and the doctors: ‘I want to die.’

But because her parents are deeply religious and belong to a Korean Christian church in Queens, they believe that allowing her daughter to choose death over life is a sin.

A judge at the state appeals court today sided with Miss Lee after the rift with her parents led to an agonising legal battle for the family. Doctors are set to be given the go-ahead to turn off her life support, unless her parents launch further legal action.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2213547/Paralysed-bank-manager-Grace-Sung-Eun-Lee-given-right-die.html#ixzz28iVjGWFS

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1. Is there anything new since this was discussed Friday?

BTW, the Mail is up to ts usual standards. It was not one judge at the Appellate Division, it was a panel.

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3. It was new to me.

As for the Mail's standards, I make no claims.

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7. NP, I thought you had posted in that thread.

It's a sad case all around. The family posted a video the day before the appellate court ruled. She appears to be giving a health care proxy to her parents and indicating she wants to go to a nursing home.

There should be more news this week when the courts open again.

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2. I would certainly hope the parents would honor her wishes now.

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5. As would all of us, but if this goes the usual way, they will fight it and fight it and fight it.

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4. May she find the peace she deserves...

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6. Administering care against a patient's wishes

is assault

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8. It is. But the heart of this case is, what are her wishes?