High Court Rejects Right-to-Die Appeal

A man dying of AIDS can’t get help from his doctor to commit suicide, the Florida Supreme Court ruled, reversing a lower court. The dying man, Charles Hall, was told of the ruling but was too heavily sedated with morphine at his home in Beverly Hills, Fla., to respond, said his attorney, Robert Rivas. Hall’s attorney had argued that a ban on assisted suicide violated the state Constitution’s privacy clause, and the lower court had ruled that Hall could seek a lethal dose of drugs from his physician.