WORKMEN'S CIRCLE HOME v. FINK


135 Misc.2d 270 (1987)

In the Matter of Workmen's Circle Home and Infirmary for the Aged, Petitioner, v. Marjorie Fink et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court, Bronx County.

April 27, 1987


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eisenberg, Lever & Eisenberg (Joel Lever of counsel), for petitioner. Richard Wasserman for respondents. Fenella Rouse for Society for the Right to Die. Richard Godosky, guardian ad litem for Terry Siegel. Mario Merola, District Attorney (Peter Grishman of counsel), for County of Bronx.


HAROLD TOMPKINS, J.

In this proceeding, Marjorie Fink and Lois Weiner seek to be appointed the committee over the person of their mother, Terry Siegel, who is comatose and in a vegetative state, with the right to make all medical decisions on her behalf.1 They express the intention not to perform a gastrostomy to insert a feeding tube. They also seek the authority to remove the...

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