Appeals court rules on life-support issue

The choice to end a loved one’s life should be left to family members, not hospitals--that decision by a lower court was upheld by the Georgia State Court of Appeals. Its ruling also say that the state’s two-year statute of limitations on wrongful death claims does not apply to children. The appellate court decision addressed a 2006 case of a teenage mother in metro Atlanta who was taken-off life support, after giving birth to her premature son while she was in a coma. The woman’s mother says she never gave consent for the hospital to take her daughter off life support, two days after the baby’s birth.