11.   A long national discussion has taken place about the end of life, resulting in legislation allowing patients or their surrogates to refuse treatment.

12.   According to one family source, Kennedy was conscious after the accident and may have initially refused medical treatment.

13.   Adolescents have a well-established right of consent to receive medical services, but do they have the same right as adults to refuse treatment?

14.   All refused medical treatment.

15.   But Gallagher refused both treatments.

16.   But he said that in cases where mentally ill people refuse treatment, state law sharply restricts what doctors can do.

17.   But Judge Arthur Birken of Broward County Circuit Court ruled that the boy had the right to refuse treatment.

18.   But she noted that other federal-court rulings guarantee inmates the right to refuse psychiatric treatment.

19.   Even if inmates confined at Bridgewater refuse treatment, the state can seek a court order to require the inmate to take medication.

20.   Emma Heslep denied church members advised him to check out of the hospital or refuse medical treatment.