William H. Colby
Autore di Long Goodbye: The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan
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William H. Colby is a Senior Fellow with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization in Washington, D.C.
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Long Goodbye: The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan di William H. Colby
I read this book in two days. It is a well-written, riveting story told by the lawyer who represented the Cruzans in their legal battle fighting for the right to remove the feeding tube from their daughter, Nancy, who had been in a persistent vegetative state for years. If you enjoy medical and law topics as I do, then you will certainly enjoy this book. Bill Colby goes into great detail on the court cases which I was surprised to find so enthralling. This book should have been a bestseller!
3780. Long Goodbye: The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan, by William H. Colby (read 4 Aug 2003) The author represented the parents of Nancy Cruzan in the famed case of Cruzan v. Missouri, where the US Supreme Court held, by a vote of 5 to 4, that Missouri need not accede to the wishes of the parents of Nancy Cruzan, who on Jan. 10, 1983, was injured in a car wreck and was in a permanent vegetative state till in 1990. After a second trial with additional evidence as to Nancy's likely wish, her feeding tube was removed and she was starved to death. The account is well-written and even though the author represented one side I thought he fairly presented the views of the pro-life position. The account of the trials and of the appeals and of the argument before the Supreme Court was super-interesting.… (altro)
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