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Article: The Terri Schiavo tragedy.(LETTERS)
- Article from:
- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 2, 2005
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Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES
For what it's worth: On March 31, 1976, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that coma patient Karen Ann Quinlan could be disconnected from her respirator. It was the first U.S. case to establish a right to cease medical treatment based on the U.S. Constitution's (implied) "right of privacy."
DANIEL P. QUINN
St. Petersburg, Fla.
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Those who appear to stoically accept the judicially decreed fatal dehydration of Terri Schiavo belie an unsettling apprehension that something abysmally wrong has taken place.
This stoicism is mostly because they continue to seek comfort in the dubious certainty ...
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... ... away because, of course, Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed ... water. Now doctors say that Terri Schiavo could live one to two weeks ... other hand, the lawyer for Michael Schiavo, Terri Schiavo's husband, says the ongoing ...
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