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A 5 page paper that examines court cases that have challenged the practice of euthanasia, or an individual's right to end one's own life when faced with terminal illness or a vegetative state. Focus is on two 1997 cases in particular, Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health and Washington v. Glucksberg. Included are views held by those opposing the practice of euthanasia as well as views of proponents. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_LCChoice.doc
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a doting father to use when he speaks of a beloved daughter. Yet they are the words Pete Busalachhi used when describing his daughter to Time magazine in 1990.
Most fathers would be shocked at the very idea of Petes statement, and most could never imagine those words ever rolling from their tongues. But most fathers have
never had to endure the "34-month funeral" that Pete Busalachhi has lived ever since an automobile accident robbed daughter Christine of all but the barest signs of life (62; Gibbs
62). With no hope of recovery, Christine now exists only in a vegetable state, caught somewhere in the gray area between life and death and kept alive by artificial
support. Pete Busalachhi happened to talk to Time magazine on that day in 1990 because his daughter happened to share the same floor
in the same Missouri rehabilitation center as Nancy Cruzan, a patient who had suffered much the same fate as Christine. Nancy was a young and vibrant 25 when an
ice storm totaled her mental capabilities as well as her car, and her parents had spent the seven years since the accident watching their motionless daughter endure a living death.
Knowing she would never recover and also knowing that Nancy would not want to exist as she was, they petitioned the courts for legal permission to remove her from
the feeding tube that kept her alive. They were granted this authority by a Missouri judge of the lower courts, but soon after the ruling the Missouri Supreme Court
stepped in and reversed the ruling on the grounds that it violated statutes that guaranteed the protection of "the sanctity of life" (Gibbs 62).
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