1. Cruzan v. Director, Mo. Dep't of Health, 110 S. Ct. 2841, 2845 (1990), aff'g Cruzan v.
Harmon, 760 SW 2d 408 (Mo. 1988)(en banc). Vegetative state describes a body which is …

Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health and the Right to Die: Where Should the Line
Be Drawn? Page 1 Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health and the Right to Die …

Petitioner Nancy Cruzan is incompetent, having sustained severe injuries in an automobile
accident, and now lies in a Missouri state hospital in what is referred to as a persistent …

On January 11, 1983, an automobile accident in Jasper County, Missouri, rendered Nancy
Beth Cruzan incompetent. Deprived of oxygen for twelve to fourteen minutes, Ms. Cruzan …

How can one be a health care professional in Missouri today? What does one say to the
family of a very sick elderly person? Does one actually acknowledge that every life …

Nancy Cruzan, a young Missouri woman whose fate will be decided this term by the United
States Supreme Court, 1 suffered catastrophic brain damage in an automobile accident …

Medical technology has effectively created a twilight zone of suspended animation where
death commences while life, in some form, continues. Some patients, however, want no part …

What a difference a year makes. AS I write this, one year has passed since June 25, 1990,
when the Supreme Court for the first time addressed an issue that has been one of the major …

Health.'Cruzan afforded the Court its first opportunity to address one of the most important
and perplexing issues our country has ever confronted-a person's right to die. 2 The Court …

Nancy Cruzan, thirty years old, had been in a persistent vegetative state for nearly six years
when the Supreme Court of Missouri decided that she should remain in that condition …