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Right to Die. For the first time, the court will delve into the murky questions surrounding the hopelessly sick when they consider the case of Nancy Cruzan, a comatose patient in a Missouri hospital. The high bench is being asked to decide whether there is a constitutional right of privacy broad enough to permit her parents to request the withdrawal of feeding tubes so that she can die with dignity...
...taking on new urgency in the U.S. Most such cases, unlike McAfee's, involve comatose patients whose families are seeking to withdraw life-support systems. This fall the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on such a situation for the first time when it considers the case of Nancy Cruzan, 32, a Missouri factory worker who has been in an irreversible vegetative state for six years. The court has been asked to decide whether there is a constitutional right of privacy broad enough to allow Cruzan's family to disconnect the feeding tubes that nourish her, and thereby...