The case of Ms. Nancy Cruzan is the first so‐called “right to die” case to be heard by the US
Supreme Court. The Missouri Supreme Court had ruled that Ms. Cruzan's parents, who are …

T issued its landmark ruling on her case, and 8 years after the tragic automobile accident
that ended her conscious life, Nancy Beth Cruzan died in a nursing home at the age of 33 …

Two recent court cases, Cruzan v Harmon and In the Matter of O'Connor, denied family
requests to withhold or withdraw life‐sustaining treatment. The facts of the cases are …

T he stage is set for a dramatic national resolution of the Cruzan family's tragic dilemma. The
numerous amicus briefs filed with the Supreme Court urging reversal of the decision of …

Robert A. Pearlman, MD, MPH 0 n June 25, 1990, the United States Supreme Court issued
an opinion in the Cruzan vs. director, Missouri Department of Health case.'This was the first” …

C. Conroy (A-108).'(The brief for amicus curiae presented by the American Geriatrics Society
in this case was published in the December 1984 issue of the Journal. 2) The Court's ruling …

An 88-year-old woman, diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state following a
stroke, resided in a nursing home where she received all of her nutrition and hydration …

KIE: The parents of Nancy Cruzan, a Missouri woman in a persistent vegetative state,
petitioned to be allowed to order the termination of her artificially administered hydration and …

States Supreme Court will, for the first time, decide whether a guardian has a constitutional
right to require that all nutrition and hydration be with-held from an incompetent ward …

W hat has happened to the role of the phy-sician as the steward of his patient's death? If, as I
believe, this stewardship is threatened, I might need to restate our claim to it, because for …