Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elements. The Quinlans' attorney, Paul Armstrong, 30, filed a court paper three weeks ago arguing that "under the existing legal and medical definitions of death recognized by the state of New Jersey, Karen Ann Quinlan is dead." Karen's doctors disagree. Not only is her heart beating, says the hospital's lawyer, but she can breathe sporadically even without the aid of the respirator...
Quinlan Attorney Armstrong has recently backed away from the claim that Karen is dead. Instead, in a brief made public last week, he argues that Joseph Quinlan, as his daughter's guardian, has the responsibility to care for her best interest-and that includes, Armstrong says, the right to die with dignity. Whether this is legally persuasive remains to be seen, but it has attracted support among religious thinkers. Says Theologian Martin Marty: "When in any other age she would be dead, then I believe that it is not playing God to stop extraordinary treatment; in fact...
...Armstrong also offers the rather unusual constitutional argument that the Quinlans' right to let Karen die is protected by the First Amendment's guarantee of religious freedom. As Roman Catholics, he says, the Quinlans believe "that earthly existence is but one phase of a continuing life," and thus it is unnecessary for Karen to cling to her present life by "the futile use" of a respiratory machine. Further still, Armstrong contends that the Eighth Amendment also gives the Quinlans the right to let Karen die, claiming that the denial of that right is "cruel and unusual" punishment. Though...
...even had a TV I lived next door to a NASA employee, whose meek children appeased the neighborhood aggressors by handing out 8 by 10 color glossies with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was, of moon, earth, Armstrong, Apollo, and SPACE (hushed voices, and well we might, we are so small...
...Hope diamond. No way they could have been taken in Texas. They were so crystalline, with a clarity to be had only in the absence of atmosphere, clouds, haze, light refracted and distracted. Literal remoteness was their essence. On TV we saw the human acts, so very simple--Armstrong saying nothing more than "just a little step for me, but you folks got a long way to go" and his pleasure in flowing slow motion. The human aspect was pretty much a not very well-scripted Wild Kingdom: "See the little gray animals. See how they run and jump...