… resuscitators, intravenous feeding, and gastrostomy feeding and hydration tubes that are …
I In considering this limitation placed on the holding, it appears that the Cruzan decision will …

… requires the states to implement the decisions of a patient’s duly … decision to reject medical
treatment, including the artificial delivery of food and water.”’” By stating that tube feeding is a …

… tube feeding is a decision to kill by lethal omission. Many commentators have pointed out
that the Cruzan case in the Missouri Supreme Court was not a unanimous decision but a split …

… In the Nancy Cruzan Case, not everybody defended the withdrawal of her feeding tube as a
… This opposing minority equates the removal of Nancy Cruzan’s feeding tube with shooting …

… to appoint a surrogate to make decisions in her stead, there was no … Cruzan’s wish to not
be maintained in a persistent vegetative state and authorized the termination of her feedings…

… \s=b\The United States Supreme Court's recent decision in the Cruzan case declared that …
remove the feeding tube and allow her to die. The staff declined to stop feeding Nancy without …

… to administer nasogastric tube feedings to an incompetent … not only reaffirmed the state’s
Cruzan-like standard (that “… In light of the O’Connor and Cruzan decisions, activists in the …

… ease the feeding process," a gastrostomy tube, a feeding tube, … case went to trial in a trial
court in Missouri, which heard arguments on behalf of the Cruzan family, who wanted the tube …

… the Cruzan family and told them that the intravenous feeding … decisions, and if they are ever
vegetative like Nancy Cruzan, … of medical treatment, even gastrostomy tubes.16 If that is our …

… Tube feeding must be recognized as an invasive procedure" with inherent risks and … tube
feeding was futile and only delayed the inevitable dying process. The case of Nancy Cruzan …