… home began feeding him through a nasogastric tube. … , it questioned its applicability in
Nancy Cruzan's case." The court … a physician who discontinued tube feeding would be actively …

… Cruzan was not terminally ill, "This is not a case in which we are asked to let someone die .. .
.This is a case in … However, the court in Cruzan held that tube feedings did not constitute the …

… care view the feeding tube differently - they see it as feeding, and not a tube. In struggling to
… On the other hand, it is by no means clear that they "benefit" from tube feeding. Continued …

… US Supreme Court chose the Cruzan case for the first right-to… -two-year-old Nancy Beth
Cruzan has been lying in a hospital … She is being kept alive with a gastrostomy feeding tube and …

… If the intestine works, we must use the enteral route, thus … the United States refers to the
Nancy Cruzan case, in 1990. … After several years of artificial feeding, Cruzan parents asked …

… However, the Court clearly announced that "[Cruzan] is the first case in which we have been
… impaired aunt's artificial feeding tube, knowing that such removal could cause her death.In …

… In the ruling, the justices felt there was no “clear and convincing evidence” that withdrawing
the tube feeding is what Ms. Cruzan herself would do, if she could. The court did recognize …

… the Cruzan case. See, eg, Browning, 568 So. 2d at 11 (citing … to have Nancy Beth Cruzan's
feeding tube removed, even … would have wished to discontinue tube feeding, the proxy was at …

… , the Cruzan decision does not resolve the broad scope of right to die questions in Missouri.
Cruzan … The majority stated their further opinion that the feeding tube treatment was not “…