Article: The Terri Schiavo tragedy.(LETTERS)

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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