Fatal outcome with use of rectal morphine for postoperative pain control in an infant.

between the right to kill and the right to die he concluded that the official solicitor's appeal should be dismissed. Lord Justice Balcombe warned against setting down "an all embracing test since the circumstances of these tragic cases are so infinitely various." Similarly, Lord Justice Taylor thought that the proper criterion must be a matter of degree and that all the circumstances should be looked at to decide if "such a life would be so afflicted as to be intolerable to that child."