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A 3 page research paper that briefly relates case law pertaining to the right to die. The writer summarizes the cases of Cruzan v. Director, Vacco v. Quill, and Washington v. Glucksburg and then discussed the law regarding withdrawal of treatment from babies suffering from disability. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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her life or if extraordinary measures should be avoided. Before examining this case, the following literature review briefly examines case law on this topic. Nancy Cruzan was badly injured
in an automobile accident in 1983. While doctors were able to restore Cruzans ability to breathe on her own, the damage to her brain was extensive and she was left
in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) (Wing, 2003). Cruzans family requested the termination of artificial hydration and nutrition in 1988, basing their actions on statements that Cruzan made to
friends and families that indicated that this is what Cruzan would have wanted (Wing, 2003). The case was complicated by the fact that Cruzan left no written instructions to this
effect. Eventually the case went to the US Supreme Court. In Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, 497 U.S. 263 (1990), the Supreme Court upheld the verdict of the
Missouri Supreme Court and ruled that a patient has the right to refuse treatment. However, it had to be firmly established in court through testimony that it would have been
Cruzans intention to terminate treatment before cessation of artificial hydration and nutrition was allowed to occur. In the case of Washington v. Glucksberg, a US Supreme Court ruling differentiated
between the withdrawal of life-saving treatments and doctor-assisted suicide (Feinberg, 1998). In this case, three terminally ill patients and four doctors challenged a Washington State law that prohibits assisted suicide
(Feinberg, 1998). The Supreme Court found that this Washington statute did not violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, thereby upholding the findings of lower courts and prohibiting
physician-assisted suicide (Feinberg, 1998). The US Supreme Court again found against physician-assisted suicide in the case of Vacco v. Quill, 117 S. Ct. 2293 (1997). As in the Glucksberg case,
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