Word: cruzans
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...Wanglie case is the reverse image of the controversy that surrounded Nancy Cruzan, the 33-year-old Missouri woman whose family fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to win the right to remove the feeding tube that was keeping her alive. Cruzan died last month, 12 days after a Missouri probate court permitted her family to stop nourishment. Before doing so, Judge Charles E. Teel Jr. determined from the testimony of witnesses that the woman would not have wanted to continue living in her comatose condition...
Most Painful Dilemma The right-to-die issue heated up when the parents of Nancy Cruzan, a comatose Missouri woman, petitioned the Supreme Court for permission to remove her feeding tube. The high court upheld a state's right to demand evidence of the patient's intent. A Missouri judge then ruled that the tube could be removed...
...written statement, Joe Cruzan said that because of his daughter's travail, "I suspect hundreds of thousands of people can rest free, knowing that when death beckons they can meet it face to face with dignity, free from the fear of unwanted and useless medical treatment." At week's end he and his wife Joyce had decided to instruct the hospital in Mount Vernon, Mo., to remove the tube. Nancy, 33, is expected to die within two weeks of that action...
...sustaining apparatus. Four months later, however, the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the ruling, arguing that "vague and unreliable" recollections were insufficient proof of Nancy's intent. Last June the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a state's right to demand clear and convincing evidence in the matter, then returned the Cruzan case to the Missouri courts...
...Teel heard new evidence. This time the Cruzan family's lawyer produced three witnesses who recounted specific conversations in which Nancy stated that she would not want to live "like a vegetable." Teel reaffirmed his decision...