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...later (he by a guard, she by a neighbor), they were rushed to different hospitals. He had apparently taken only some ten to 20 pills and was soon back in prison. She had taken more Seconal, plus a second bottle of Dalmane sleeping pills, and was in a critical coma for several days. Prison officials had had reason to suspect a possible suicide pact. Gilmore, who dabbles in poetry as well as drawing, had written Nicole from his cell: "Hang myself? ... I may do that." She had written him that she had practiced suicide by slashing one wrist. "What...
...This is not a book about the substance of Karen Ann Quinlan's life," Colen writes. "It is, instead, a book about the meaning of her dying and death." So Colen mentions only in passing that Karen Quinlan mixed drugs with alcohol and lapsed into a coma on the night of April 14 last year. The real Karen Ann Quinlan story began long after she lost consciousness and her parents, Joseph and Julia Quinlan, had given up hope. The Quinlans asked Karen's physicians to remove the respirator that kept her alive--or rather kept her from dying...
August 15, 1976: the once healthy franchise of the Boston Minutemen had lapsed into a coma. It was viable in name alone, and only an optimist with a fortune could hope to revive the patient...
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...
...Jersey Supreme Court approved the removal of the mechanical respirator from Karen last March. Contrary to prognosis, she remains alive in a rest home, though still in a coma...