Word: quinlans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night last April, Karen Ann Quinlan, 21, went to bed saying she was not feeling well. She never woke up. Stricken with a still undiagnosed malady (perhaps the result of mistakenly mixing a tranquilizer and drinks), she has remained in a coma ever since. One side of her permanently damaged brain shows almost no sign of functioning while the other gives off only slight but steady signals visible on an electroencephalogram. Last week, unwittingly, Karen Ann became the focus of the continuing legal-medical-ethical controversy over how to define death...
...Limbo. For her adoptive parents, the anguish is already five months old. For a while, Julia Ann Quinlan prayed for Karen's recovery, then that "God would take her." Joseph Quinlan, a section supervisor at Warner-Lambert, a pharmaceutical company, found it harder to give up, but "finally, I had to." Karen's neurologist declared she had "extensive cerebral damage" and saw "no hope." Nonetheless a respirator and other medical aid promised to hold her almost indefinitely in her limbo between life and death. The Quinlans realized they would have to take an affirmative step to allow Karen...
...Last week the judge responded by asking the county prosecutor to show cause why he should not be barred from prosecuting if the machine were stopped. The judge also appointed a public defender to protect the unconscious girl's legal rights. But what are they? Is Karen Ann Quinlan alive or dead...
Fetal Position. For now, the hospital is absorbing the medical cost, already more than $100,000. Meanwhile Karen's body is slowly curling into the fetal position, and she has lost 60 lbs. Though she does not respond, the Quinlans visit twice a day, and Mrs. Quinlan talks quietly to her. "I don't believe I could go to bed without saying something to her," she says. "Just like saying good night, you know, to your other children...
State Rep. Paul L. Guzzi '64 (D-Newton) crushed Sen. John M. Quinlan (R-Norwood) in a hotly contested race for Secretary of State. Guzzi established a 2-1 lead early in the evening and with 62 per cent of the precincts reporting, he led Quinlan...