Word: veatch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Quinlan case has attracted worldwide attention, it is, in its tragic essentials, not that rare. The only estimate for "terminal patients kept alive by mechanical means," says Dr. Robert Veatch of the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences, is "lots and lots." Doctors in such cases often act alone and disconnect life-supporting machinery. "It is done all the time," says New Jersey Neurological Surgeon Arthur Winter. In Denver Anna Mair made the decision two years ago after her son David, 10, had been hit by a truck. Realizing that he would "never be anything...