Malgré des points de vue différents, les témoins reconnaissent presque unanimement que l'abstention et l'interruption de traitement de survie sont moralement acceptables en principe et que, si un patient capable ou son représentant refuse un traitement, il faut respecter cette décision.
Despite the different views of the witnesses, they were almost unanimous in finding that withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment is morally acceptable in principle and that when a competent patient or patient's surrogate refuses to consent to treatment, that decision must be respected.