The travail and triumph of Sidney Greenspan.
The question of whether a feeding-tube could be withdrawn from Sidney Greenspan, a man who had survived in a Chicago nursing home for six years in a vegetative state, has focused ethical and legal deliberation on the issue of whether Illinois will follow the tradition of cases of court-sanctioned withdrawal (Quinlan, Fox, Conroy, Jobes, et al) or the more ambiguous precedents of Longeway and Cruzan, which disallowed withdrawal.
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D000544:Alzheimer Disease; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005066:Euthanasia, Passive / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois; D008297:Male; D012297:Right to Die / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence