The Case of Nancy Cruzan

Nancy Cruzan's lawsuit Nancy Cruzan's case is one of the groundbreaking litigation of discontinuation of artificial nutrition and hydration as it reveals important ethical issues. At the time of the incident, the US Supreme Court has decided the right to refuse treatment of individuals. Therefore, this problem is novelty in the case of Cruzan. Furthermore, there is no controversy over who is the right decision maker of Nancy Kruzan.

The case of Nancy Crusan is the concept of medical inefficiency. Nancy Crusan lost control of her car at the age of 24 and left her in a groove full of water. The medical staff rushed to the scene and learned that her heart had stopped. Although they may damage the heart, her brain is deprived of long-term oxygen, and Nancy is PVS. Nancy lived in a ventilator and a feeding tube for seven years. Her treatment expenses in Missouri is $ 112,000 per year. In the past seven years, Nancy has never talked to family or friends. Nutrition tubes and prisoners are simply devices connecting Nancy and the world and now leave her body, not her heart

I will focus on three cases, Karen Quinlan, Nancy Kruzan, and Teresa Seabo. In the first case, Karen Quinran became a nutritive grower in 1975, legal discussion lasted about 1 year. The second person was Nancy Kruzan, who became a vegetative grower in 1983, and the legal argument lasted about three years. In the third case, Terri Schiavo became a sustainable vegetative plant in 1990, the legal argument began in 1998 and lasted seven years before the final settlement. This gradual expansion of forensic debate is an anxious trend in all consecutive cases.

Taking a woman named Missouri women Nancy Kursan as an example, he was injured in a car accident at the age of 24 in 1983, and was still in permanent nutrition 7 years later. Unlike Karen Quinlan, which is activated by ventilators and feeding tubes, Nancy Cruzan only creates vitality through a feeding tube. . Nancy Kurzan's parents Joe and Joyce Roussin requested a feeding tube and allowed her to die because Nancy would not want it. Opposition of Missouri - In diverse backgrounds the type of value-bearing collision in these cases - the case entered the US Supreme Court and was finally decided in 1990 with the help of Cruzans