Word: quinlan
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Such thinking played a significant role in the famous 1976 New Jersey Supreme Court case that permitted the Catholic parents of comatose Karen Ann Quinlan to have her respirator removed. The Quinlans' lawyer, Paul Armstrong, also a Catholic, was among the Boston conferees. He has noted that since the Quinlan ruling, many Americans have come to view kidney dialysis, cancer chemotherapy and the use of respirators as treatments that can be halted if they become too burdensome physically, emotionally and financially. When such methods are onerous and have a minimal chance of success, Catholic moral theologians term them "extraordinary," meaning...
...issue of stopping food and water nonetheless remains one of the most agonizing that doctors face. Thanks in part to the precedent established by the Karen Ann Quinlan case ten years ago, it is no longer unusual to shut off a respirator or discontinue kidney dialysis for terminally ill or comatose patients. Food is another matter. "Most people equate hydration and feeding with nurture and caring," observes Dr. Russel Patterson, president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and a member of the A.M.A. judicial council. This equation is entirely natural, argues Patterson, but not for the comatose patient with...
Karen Ann Quinlan could never know that she was a famous legal case, that her "right to die" was the subject of a book, Karen Ann, and a movie, In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan, or that on her 31st birthday this past April, cards of good wishes came from all over the world. Throughout all this, for more than ten years, she lay in a coma, curled into a fetal position, shrunken to little more than 60 lbs., unable to see or speak...
...matter of Karen Ann Quinlan, the parents' petition has finally been granted. After she succumbed to pneumonia last week, held in the arms of her weeping mother, Joseph Quinlan said, "She died with dignity...
...hospital should not be forced to administer Bouvia painkillers. But one may also argue that neither should it be compelled to force-feed her. The prolonged and well-publicized case of Karen Ann Quinlan in 1975 determined that parents of a comatose girl could ask her doctors to remove the life-sustaining respirator that was keeping her nominally alive. As the judge in that case said, interest in preserving life "weakens and the individual's right to privacy grows as the degree of bodily invasion increases and the prognosis dims...