Nancy Beth Cruzan (July 20, 1957-December 26, 1990) was a figure in the right-to-die movement. After an auto accident left her in a persistent vegetative state, her family fought in courts for three years, as far as the U.S. Supreme Court, to have her feeding tube removed. The Court denied the family's request citing lack of evidence of Cruzan's wishes, but the family ultimately prevailed by providing additional evidence. Wikipedia
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In January 1983 twenty-five-year-old Nancy Beth Cruzan lost control of her car. A state trooper found her lying face-down in a ditch. She was in cardiac and respiratory arrest. Paramedics were able to revive her, but a neurosurgeon diagnosed "a probabl www.libraryindex.com/pages/3143/Courts-End-Life-CASE-NANC...
Nancy Cruzan is a 32-year-old Missouri woman who is in a persistent vegetative case. Persistent vegetative case is a specific clinical diagnosis for a patient who is permanently unconscious. All thought, all memory, all ability to interact with the worl www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1989/1989_88_1503/argument/
Had the Cruzan family been in China when Nancy Cruzan suffered the accident that left her in a persistent vegetative state, and had China done to the Cruzans what Missouri has done to them, outrage would have rung throughout the United States. The comman www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=5002157785