Word: comas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebrated one involving Karen Ann Quinlan, the young New Jersey woman whose hopeless comatose state led her parents to ask that efforts to keep her alive cease. (Though doctors disconnected her respirator almost four years ago, after a ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court, Quinlan, still in a coma, remains alive.) "This man is not a vegetable," insists Fred Mues, administrator of the Holyoke Geriatric Center, where Spring lives...