An anorexic and bulimic New Jersey woman who petitioned a court to refuse force-feeding has died three months after a judge granted her request.
"I feel glad that she is no longer suffering, but I feel a profound sense of sadness that modern science and all the efforts by a strong, loving family couldn't overcome this problem," D'Alessandro said.
The state attorney general's office argued she was not mentally competent because of chronic depression. It said anorexia was not a terminal condition and asked the court to approve force-feedings, requested by state Department of Human Services. The attorney general's office said the woman's depression could be treated using an experimental drug. Doctors testified that the woman had been diagnosed with terminal anorexia-nervosa.
"This decision was made by A.G. with a clear understanding that death was or could be the possible outcome," the judge said.
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