Footnote

c On March 27, 1985, a similar decision was reached by the Fourth District Court of Appeal of Florida.⁴ It affirmed that even in a life-threatening situation a transfusion could be refused by a 27-year-old man even though he contributed to the support of a minor child. It added: “Moreover blood transfusions are not without risk and we take judicial notice of the adverse consequences, perhaps abhorrent to the donee, which can arise from a transfusion of impure blood.”