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...STEPHANIE'S lovers, a hopeless alcoholic, confides to her that he has a secret desire to write a novel. This revelation prompts a rare moment of humorous insight from Gray's heroine...
...earlier this year, but not before the story had grabbed considerable attention in the national press. The most interesting fact the news stories revealed was not that Karen Ann Quinlan quit going to church, or that Joseph and Julia Quinlan are parents only by adoption, or even that many "hopeless" comatose patients have recovered; these things only detract from the significance of the Quinlan case. The important discovery was that respirators had been unplugged earlier all over the country--sometimes without even the permission of the families involved. Some doctors say it happens every...
...such hopeless cases, does the intentional disconnecting of a respirator constitute a murder? Colen says no, because the respirator is not prolonging the life of the patient, it is merely postponing an inevitable death. As simple as that. Don't talk about "quality of life" in the Quinlan situation, he says, because her life has no quality. She will never even reach the level of self-awareness of a mentally retarded child. Don't talk about million-to-one chances, because, in Colen's words, "Medicine doesn't deal with a million-to-one. It deals with what is best...
...Mezzanine level Sunday, tuxedoed, pleasant, up-with-people-looking servants patrolled around with trays of hors-d'oeuvres oblivious to the pilferers who reduced them to hopeless shambles of parsley and potato chips within minutes...
...scholarship, is briefly married to an impotent philosophy professor and then goes through several New York City careers (publishing, advertising, etc.) and a long line of lovers. When the last one leaves her, she wakes up to what her face in the mirror reveals: "a middle-aged woman in hopeless and terrible need...