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...second game the Crimson came out of its coma...
Former Schoolteacher Peter Cinque, 41, had lost his sight and both his legs to diabetes. He wanted to stop dialysis and other life-sustaining treatment. The hospital refused. On Oct. 22,1982, a New York judge upheld Cinque's right to stop treatment. By then in a coma, he was disconnected from a respirator that day and died, alone, before his family could get to his bedside...
...person had been considered medically and legally dead when his heart and lungs stopped. Today, however, machines can prolong these visible signs of life even after the brain has ceased to function. The standards for determining "brain death," set forth by a 1968 Harvard Medical School report on irreversible coma, are now widely accepted among medical professionals. Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia have brain-death statutes...
...replicate the decision the patient would make were he able to speak for himself. This notion of "substituted judgment" was established judicially for an incompetent patient by the New Jersey Supreme Court in the 1976 landmark case of Karen Ann Quinlan, who had lapsed into an irreversible coma the year before. Pressed by her parents, the court ruled that her respirator could be removed if the Quinlans, her doctors and a hospital review committee agreed...
Because of a recent case in California, doctors have yet another reason to fear the consequences of their actions. The case developed after Clarence Herbert, 55, a racetrack security guard, suddenly slipped into a coma following a seemingly successful 1981 operation at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Los Angeles. With the family's consent, his doctors removed his respirator. "They said he was clinically dead and would never return," insists his wife Patsy. When Herbert kept breathing, the doctors cut off intravenous food and water, again with the family's agreement. Finally, eleven days after the operation, Herbert...