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Karen Quinlan The Right To Die Case Study

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A young girl Karen Ann Quinlan on April 15, 1975, slipped into a coma and her case began a major debate about “the right to die”. The defendant’s, in this case, are the doctors and hospital officials and the plaintiffs are the parents Mr. Joseph and Mrs. Julia Quinlan. One night Karen Quinlan hung out with friends and during the night she drank and took tranquilizers that made her pass out. Karen was taken to a hospital in New Jersey that night and shortly after she went into a coma which lasted 10 years. She was placed on a ventilator and a feeding tube to help her stay alive. Karen’s parents, Joseph and Julia Quinlan decided they did want their daughter on a ventilator and wanted her to die peacefully and without pain. The parents decide
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