Word: quinlans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joseph Quinlan, a modest drug-company section supervisor, loves his adopted daughter, Karen Anne. That is why the squarely built man with the short graying hair found himself in court last week, pleading for permission to let her die. Karen, 21, has been in a coma since the early morning of April 15, her breathing maintained by a machine called a respirator. By all accounts she has shriveled into something scarcely human. She weighs only 60 Ibs., and she is unable to move a muscle, to speak or to think. One doctor testified last week that she had become...
...relative newcomer to the bench but a man with a reputation for doing his legal homework, confronts the most difficult kind of decision any judge can face, a decision with a life in the balance. Because it deals with some of the most fundamental aspects of human existence, the Quinlan case has become the focus of increasing attention from doctors, lawyers and moral thinkers (TIME, Sept. 29 and Oct. 27), but it is up to Muir alone to rule whether there is a point beyond which life need no longer be preserved. He must rule whether it is legally permissible...
...trial that has attracted so much attention is an adversary proceeding in which there are no enemies. Neither the doctors who refused the Quinlans' request to remove Karen from her respirator nor the guardian appointed by the court to represent her nor the attorneys who represent the legal rights of the county and the state-none of these rival authorities can avoid a sense of uneasiness at prolonging the anguish of Joseph Quinlan and his wife Julia Ann. Their court argument is really a search for answers to questions for which there are no clear legal precedents...
...Quinlan Attorney Armstrong has recently backed away from the claim that Karen is dead. Instead, in a brief made public last week, he argues that Joseph Quinlan, as his daughter's guardian, has the responsibility to care for her best interest-and that includes, Armstrong says, the right to die with dignity. Whether this is legally persuasive remains to be seen, but it has attracted support among religious thinkers. Says Theologian Martin Marty: "When in any other age she would be dead, then I believe that it is not playing God to stop extraordinary treatment; in fact...
...eight lawyers in the case, two declare that the matter should not be argued in court at all. The hospital's attorney, Theodore Einhorn, says that the court ought to leave the patient to her doctors. So does Ralph Porzio, the lawyer for those doctors. "Miss Quinlan must be viewed as a patient undergoing treatment," says Porzio. Some outside doctors feel the same way. To allow the court to decide the Quinlan case, says Dr. David Posqanzer, a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, "is taking the judgment of a doctor and putting it in the hands of those...