What is the view of the Court of Appeal on the meaning of a person's right to terminate their own life?

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The following excerpt is from Justus v. Atchison, 126 Cal.Rptr. 150, 53 Cal.App.3d 556 (Cal. App. 1975):

3 A modern view has been stated in O'Neill v. Morse (1971) 385 Mich. 130, 188 N.W.2d 785, 787: 'The phenomenon of birth is not the beginning of life; it is merely a change in the form of life.'

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