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Marina lapsed into a coma almost immediately after we had spoken to her. Only 38 hours after, she died of blunt trauma. The police continued with the same story and began to canvass the area to find out if anyone had seen the man following...
Samuel Marx, who was story editor at MGM at the time, thought otherwise. Bern had told him that he once lived in New York City with an actress named Dorothy Millette. She had mysteriously fallen into a coma, and Bern had placed her in an institution. Ten years later, she had just as mysteriously recovered and come to California to resume their common-law marriage...
...years ago, when Marx was discussing this case with a former Dutch ballerina named Joyce Vanderveen, she challenged his theory as implausible, and the two of them decided to investigate further. They discovered that Millette, who was found drowned shortly after Bern's death, suffered not from a coma but from acute schizophrenia. But nothing shook the finding of suicide until Marx met a minor comedian who had been a drinking pal of retired MGM security chief Whitey Hendry's. Hendry, shortly before his death, told this pal that he had accompanied Mayer to Bern's house that first morning...
...wanted to make it clear that he sympathized. There was "no doubt," he said, that Joe and Joyce Cruzan "are loving and caring parents." So if the state of Missouri had to let anyone decide to end medical treatment of their daughter Nancy, who has lain in an irreversible coma ever since a car crash seven years ago, "the Cruzans would surely qualify." Despite all this sympathy, however, Rehnquist spoke last week for a 5-to-4 Supreme Court majority in regretfully rejecting the Cruzans' plea to have their daughter "set free...
...Cole case provides one more reason for courts to be careful about withdrawing life support: medicine is an uncertain science. When Cole's wife Jackie suffered a massive brain hemorrhage four years ago, the blood vessels in her brain ruptured, and she fell into a coma. "The vast majority of patients who have this kind of stroke die within a few hours," Dr. Tad Pula, the head of Maryland General Hospital's division of neurology, told Cole. But Jackie did not die right away; after several crises she stabilized into a vegetative state, which doctors said could last indefinitely. After...