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...cruel ordeal of Nancy Cruzan is finally drawing to an end. Last week probate judge Charles Teel Jr. ruled that the Missouri Rehabilitation Center could disconnect the feeding tube that has kept the woman alive since 1983, when a car crash left her in an irreversible coma. Since state officials have promised to abide by the ruling, the decision ends a legal battle that took the woman's parents all the way to the Supreme Court in their quest to "allow Nancy the dignity of death...
Because Nancy had left no such document, her parents had to prove that she would have wanted the tube disconnected. When the case was first heard in 1988, Judge Teel weighed the testimony of friends and family, then granted permission to remove the life-sustaining apparatus. Four months later, however, the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the ruling, arguing that "vague and unreliable" recollections were insufficient proof of Nancy's intent. Last June the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a state's right to demand clear and convincing evidence in the matter, then returned the Cruzan case to the Missouri courts...
Dozens of students, friends and associates gathered yesterday evening in the Adams House lower common room to remember Benjamin E. Teel, the house's assistant senior tutor who died July...
...closest friends while at Harvard, Professor of Romance Languages Wilga Rivers, who advised Teel on his Ph.D. dissertation, said that "he was never sitting around. He became fascinated with the learning of literate and non-literate people." For example, Rivers said, Teel studied the Haitian Creole language to better understand how illiterate Haitians learn French...
While it doesn't prove that a genuine mass movement has begun, a story Teel tells about his participation in the recent Boston meeting does seem to support the idea that scientists and others are beginning to take the analyses of SftP and similar groups more seriously...