Court Opinion

ID: 9698038
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 19:40:10.559311+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:37.786863
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McEWEN, Judge,
concurring.
“Your money or your life!”, demanded the highwayman of the horseman. “I can protect your money, but not your life.”, decreed the chancellor. How anomalous that both the lawless and the lawful share a particular focus — property.
The compelling presentation of divergent views expressed by my esteemed colleagues fulfills so admirably our intermediate appellate role and so precisely defines the issues as to readily enable review by our Supreme Court. Thus, while, under the facts of this case, I concur in the decision to permit the termination of life-sustaining treatment of Daniel Joseph *639Fiori, I refrain from joinder in any expression since I am beset by a nagging uncertainty: what values does a society reflect when it permits its legal system to require careful judicial scrutiny of decisions affecting the property of an incompetent, but precludes similar judicial scrutiny of a decision to terminate the life of the incompetent?