Department of law and ethics

Quinlan, Saikewicz, and Brother Fox are names that remind us that people in different states of competence with different sorts of histories have a right to die when the alternative is seemingly endless and useless prolongation of vegetative life. Baby Doe and the Baby Doe regulations questioned our ability to judge quality of life for “defective” infants. Perhaps there is a life not worth living for adults, but can we make the same claim for infants who are not clearly irreversibly comatose or terminally ill in the sense that an infant with anen-ceohalv is terminally ill

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