Word: comas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Passed by a 43-to-25 vote in the California assembly after a bitter fight, the bill gained significant support in the wake of the case of Karen Anne Quinlan, the New Jersey girl who slipped into an apparently irreversible coma. Karen's parents spent six months battling for her right to die with dignity.* Though the California bill specifically disavows "mercy killing" and allows anyone designated by the patient to rescind the death directive, California's pro-life forces strenuously opposed the measure as the first step toward euthanasia. Said one Democratic assemblyman, Vincent Thomas: "The trend...
Watching her patient come out of a coma, the nurse asked a traditional question: "Do you know where you are?" Congressman Wayne Hays nodded. "Where?" she persisted. Slowly, stretching out the word, he replied: "Barnes ... ville." Hays had survived an excessive dose of sleeping pills, mind undamaged, and would keep his place at the center of a congressional scandal that grew still more lurid last week...
...booked into the Palace Theater for her first Broadway stage appearance since The Pajama Game 22 years ago. How nice to be back in "the Karen Quinlan of cities," said Shirley, comparing the life expectancy of New York with that of the young New Jersey woman, whose tragic yearlong coma stirred a lingering right-to-life court battle. MacLaine's audience, including Jackie Onassis and Congresswoman Bella Abzug, sat in silence. After the show Miss MacLaine lamely explained, "I remembered that line was going around Washington. I was trying to say New York should have the power to make...
...Monday, April 5, Montemayor was summoned to Acapulco's Princess Hotel. As he was escorted into the opulent Jasmine penthouse suite, he was taken aback. On an orthopedic bed in a deep coma lay Howard Hughes, his emaciated, naked body covered only with a sheet. His skin was spotted with bedsores. Blood oozed from a swelling on the side of his head that had been cut open in a fall several months earlier. His blood pressure was barely recordable, his breathing was shallow, and he showed signs of severe dehydration...
...person's right to live and die. It came in a unanimous ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court in the much-discussed case of Karen Anne Quinlan (TIME, Nov. 3). After apparently downing some pills and drinks a year ago, Karen, 22, had fallen into a vegetative coma, and her father asked for court authority to remove a life-supporting respirator so that she could die "with grace and dignity." Her mother believed that God had kept Karen alive "so that others could be helped" by a ruling on when life may become death...