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The nightmare began nearly seven years ago. In the early-morning hours of Jan. 11, 1983, Nancy Cruzan's car swerved on an icy and deserted Missouri country road. The car flipped and crashed. The 25-year-old woman tumbled out and landed facedown in a ditch. Medical help arrived...
Nancy Cruzan never regained consciousness after that accident, and doctors say she never will. Now 32, she lies in a condition known as a persistent vegetative state, awake but totally unaware, at the Missouri Rehabilitation Center at Mount Vernon. Her body is stiff and severely contracted, her knees and arms...
A tube to Cruzan's stomach provides all the food and water that keep her on this side of existence. The cost of her care, $130,000 annually, is borne by the state (since she is not a minor, her parents are not held responsible for her debts). Doctors say...
This week the family will direct its plea to the U.S. Supreme Court, and for the first time draw the nation's highest court into the murky legal and ethical seas that surround the notion of a right to die. What the Justices decide will directly affect Cruzan. It will...
The Cruzan case dramatically evokes many of the primal emotions and fundamental uncertainties of life, death and love. Even the simple question at the heart of the Cruzan case -- who is to decide on ending a life -- defies an easy answer. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled last year that the...