… In exploring the factors relevant to decisions about tube feedings, we limited our investigation
to living wills, family's wishes, the Cruzan decision, and patient characteristics. Other …

… In the spring of 1991, we began a study to explore how the Cruzan decision and … tube
feeding after Cruzan could be based on changes in their attitudes toward living wills. After Cruzan …

… life, the Missouri Supreme Court held that Cruzan's feeding tube couldnot be withdrawn in
the … In the Cruzan case, the Supreme Court upheld Missouri's rule that a feeding tube can be …

… the issue of tube feeding first came to the national scene in the case of Nancy Cruzan, the
… the discussion over the ethics of tube feeding involves the matter of categorization—is tube …

… However, continuation of tube feeding for Miss Cruzan, who remained in a persistent vegetative
state, was supported. This con tinuation was in opposition to the patient’s wishes as well …

… The Missouri Supreme Court decision on Nancy Cruzan is, in my judgment, so bad that it …
Each is sustained by a gastrostomy feeding tube at state expense for an average of 20–25 …

… deciding the Cruzan case, that a decision to withdraw a feeding tube was no different from
a decision … Thus, what the Court said about tube feeding is not part of the holding, nor is it …

… At the time of the Supreme Court decision Nancy Cruzan … Nancy Cruzan’s biological
existence was being sustained by … of Nancy Cruzan’s right to decline artificial feeding are hardly …

… A gastrostomy tube surgically implanted in her stomach provides life-sustaining fluids and
… Cruzan's parents could act on their daughter's behalf and stop the gastrostomy feeding. …

… tube feedings be discontinued. Because the state hospital caring for Cruzan insisted on a
court order, the case … Cruzan's parents asked that tube feedings be discontinued because they …