LIFE AND DEATH: A life-support case similar...

LIFE AND DEATH: A life-support case similar to the one ruled on by the Supreme Court on Monday (A1) came before then Orange County Superior Court Judge Bruce W. Summer in 1979. . . . He allowed a Westminster woman to stop support for her 18-year-old son. Sumner, above, now a private attorney in Newport Beach, still holds by his ruling because “it’s a problem that faces so many families, so many hospitals and so many doctors, and we pretend it isn’t there.” . . . Now, says the Fullerton-based Society of Critical Care Medicine, if you want to pull the plug, put it in writing before the crisis.