Word: trapasso
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They were bolstered by long soul-searching talks with their other two children and their Roman Catholic parish priest. Father Thomas Trapasso advised them that there was "no moral obligation to use extraordinary means to sustain life when there is no realistic hope of some recovery." But when the Quinlans asked doctors to let their daughter die, the doctors refused. Karen was not a minor, they said, and they might be held responsible for her death...