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Because Spring is mobile and able to talk, his case is not the same as the celebrated one involving Karen Ann Quinlan, the young New Jersey woman whose hopeless comatose state led her parents to ask that efforts to keep her alive cease. (Though doctors disconnected her respirator almost four years ago, after a ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court, Quinlan, still in a coma, remains alive.) "This man is not a vegetable," insists Fred Mues, administrator of the Holyoke Geriatric Center, where Spring lives...
...woman mentioned above was Karen Ann Quinlan. Her father's well-publicized petition to have her removed from the respirator was heard by the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1976. In a landmark decision, the court ruled that doctors and hospital ethics committees, acting in conjunction with family members, had the right to remove patients such as Karen from life-support systems without appeal to the courts...
...Saikewicz decision, written by Justice Paul J. Liacos, the court rejected the conclusion of the Quinlan case. The court said...
...should pull the plug? Should the court provide doctors a guideline for dealing with patients who refuse treatment, or should it require adjudication of all right-to-die cases? The court's answer could lead to another stormy chapter in the effort to resolve the dilemma that Karen Ann Quinlan first triggered...
Here is yet another silly Hollywood soap opera about a damaged heroine. In this variation on the theme, pert young Nancy (Kathleen Quinlan) goes through the windshield of a car headfirst on her way to marry earnest young Michael (Stephen Collins). The prognosis is not good. Nancy requires 90 stitches, and, as her doctor points out, "there's not an awful lot left under those stitches." Is there a plastic surgeon in the house...