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Euthanasia and Life-Sustaining Treatment
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Euthanasia and Life-Sustaining Treatment
A look at the right to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment including the Quinlan case, right to privacy, rational choice, autonomy and informed consent.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages) |
15 sources |
1992
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"Right to Refuse Life-Sustaining Medical TreatmentIn 1976, the New Jersey Supreme Court rules that comatose Karen Ann Quinlan's constitutional right to privacy protected her right to refuse medical treatment and allowed her physicians to disconnect the respirator keeping her alive.. Since In Re Quinlan courts nationwide have confronted the issue whether to allow withdrawal of life-sustaining medical treatment, and over fifty cases have resulted in similar verdicts. However, a growing number of these decisions use the common law doctrine of "informed consent" rather than the constitutional "right to privacy" as the foundation for the evolving right to die.
A patient's exercise of the right to die is a form of euthanasia, which Black's Law Dictionary defines as "the act or..."
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