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Last month, a California Superior Court judge decided that a 26-year-old cerebral palsy victim-Elizabeth Bouvia-may not starve herself to death under the auspices of the hospital where she is a patient "In conventional folklore, Elizabeth Bouvia might have been an inspirational figure," News-week wrote at the time True, she has led an incredibly difficult and heroic life. A quadriplegic, she lived on her own, earned a college degree, and got married (she and her husband have since separated). But now that she has decided she no longer wants to go on, experts who debate...
PETITION DENIED. To Elizabeth Bouvia, 26, cerebral palsy victim who has fought for the right to starve herself to death in a hospital because she is tired of life in "a useless body"; by a California Supreme Court affirmation of earlier decisions to throw out her plea...
...celebrated life-and-death legal struggles intensified on both coasts over the Christmas holidays. In New York, the severely handicapped Baby Jane Doe, now almost three months old, became the subject of a third lawsuit intended to prolong her life. In California, Cerebral Palsy Victim Elizabeth Bouvia was denied the right to starve herself to death in a Riverside hospital and was force-fed despite her bitter resistance...
...quadriplegic since birth, 26-year-old Elizabeth Bouvia (pronounced Boo-vay) has lived a relatively full life, including marriage and a college education. In early September, after separating from her husband and deciding that she no longer wanted to be totally dependent on others for her daily care, she entered Riverside General Hospital and asked officials there to keep her comfortable while she starved herself to death. In mid-December, California Superior Court Judge John H. Hews ruled that Bouvia "does have the right to terminate her existence, but not .. . with the assistance of society." Three days later, Bouvia stopped...
...main goal of hospital officials is to be rid of Bouvia, but they can hardly wheel her out onto the sidewalk and leave her. Several sympathetic individuals have offered her shelter, but she has declined all such overtures, because she wants medical support while she dies; which is to say that she is determined to stay right where she is. The hospital is equally determined. "We will have her out of the hospital," says Riverside County Deputy Counsel William Katzenstein. "I assure you of that...