Long Goodbye: The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan - Hardcover

Colby, William H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1401900119 ISBN 13: 9781401900113

Publisher: Hay House Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Looks at the 1987 right-to-die trial affecting the parents who wished to remove the feeding tube from their vegetative daughter, and examines the surrounding protests that held them in the courtroom for the next seven years.

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About the Author:

Bill Colby is the lawyer who represented the family of Nancy Cruzan. He is a Fellow at the Midwest Bioethics Center in Kansas City and currently teaches at the University of Kansas School of Law. Colby has appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, the MacNeil Lehrer Report and other national programs, and has spoken across the country on the ethical and legal issues related to death and dying. The Cruzan case is the only so-called "right to die" case ever heard by the United States Supreme Court. He lives in Kansas City with his wife, four children, and their dog, Spot. This is his first book.

From Booklist:

In 1987, as a young lawyer, Colby took as his first case what appeared to be a simple probate issue--guardianship rights of the parents of a young woman who was in a persistent vegetative state after being severely injured in a car accident. Because the Cruzans wanted to remove their daughter's feeding tube, the case generated a firestorm of publicity and protests from right-to-lifers. Drawing on the taped recollections of Cruzan's father and his own records, Colby chronicles the stark human drama of a family forced to live its most intimate moments in the courts and the media. He tracks the case from its beginning in probate court in a small town in Missouri to the U.S. Supreme Court. After three years of litigation and seven years spent in a vegetative state, Cruzan was finally permitted to die. This is a truly riveting look at the case that sharpened public debate about the medical and legal issues surrounding brain death and the right to die with dignity. Vanessa Bush
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About this edition

• Publisher: Hay House Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1401900119
• ISBN 13: 9781401900113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 450