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An 8 page paper discussing Missouri Supreme Court Case No. 73677, which deals with the case of Christine Busalacchi, a 21- year-old brain injured woman in the care of a Missouri nursing home. She had been unconscious for four years as a result of an auto accident. Only 17 at the time of the accident, a critical point of the case was that she had not expressed her wishes regarding future development of such conditions. Her father sought to move her to another state more favorable to feeding tube removal. The paper discusses philosophical bases for decision making, arguments made to the state supreme court and an analysis of a different view. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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File: CC6_KSnursEthDeChris.rtf
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Ill be glad to revise this if you want to fax in the text of the arguments made in the case. JM Introduction and Background
Missouri Supreme Court Case No. 73677 deals with the case of Christine Busalacchi, a 21- year-old brain injured woman in the care of a Missouri nursing home,
and had been unconscious for four years as a result of an auto accident. Only 17 at the time of the accident, a critical point of the case was
that she had not expressed her wishes regarding future development of such conditions. Her father sought to move her to another state, ostensibly to gain medical attention from a
neurologist specializing in coma cases. The Missouri medical facility caring for Christine and in which Nancy Cruzan had been a patient at the time of her death (The next
Cruzan case, 1991), sought to block Christines fathers efforts. The medical facility claimed that the father wanted to move Christine to Minnesota, a state with less stringent requirements of
patient care. Christine had been diagnosed earlier as being in a persistent vegetative state, but at the time of the case, caregivers reported
that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communicate her preferences, could track people with
her eyes and differentiate between familiar people and strangers" (Euthanasia Court Cases Rulings on Medical Killing, 2001). In a 2-to-1 decision, a Missouri
appeals court blocked efforts to move Christine out of Missouri. In its decision, the appeals court "reaffirmed the states strong interest in insuring that decisions made on behalf of
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