re: #451 lawhawk

From personal experience, if someone refuses medical treatment, or mental health care, it doesn’t matter how much money you have. That person has every right to refuse treatment no matter how beneficial, unless you go through a commitment process that is quite time consuming and favors non-committal because of the requirements needed. Multiple doctors have to find that the person will do harm to themselves or others, immediacy, and other factors involved.

The mother may have been trying to go through the involuntary commitment route but that’s a time consuming process.

Those rules need to be revised.