Comments on: Deciding To Die: The Case of Karen Quinlan

By: zaida

zaida — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:33:13 +0000

I BELIEVE THAT KAREN WAS KEPT ALIVE FOR THE BENIFIT OF DOCTOR, TO DO RESARCH ON HER, ON HOW LONG A PERSON CAN STAY ON LIFE SUPPORT. MEANWHILE HER PARENTS HAD TO PAST THROUGH ALL THE SADNESS OF SEEING THEY DAUGHTER IN THAT CONDITION, THE COURT SHOULD HAD LET THEM DO WHAT HAD TO DO WITH THEIR DAUGHTER.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:09:43 +0000

I applaud the parent’s decision to take her off the respirator, and, eventually, artificial nutrition and hydration. A PVS patient is brain dead and has no cognition or any chances of recovery whatsoever. She, as a person, was already dead although her body lived on; she was a human organism but no longer a human person.

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:09:09 +0000

I read Karen Quinlan’s story in the ‘Daily Mirror’ years ago. I prayed for her to come back from her coma to her parents, who must have suffered greatly. She was the same age as myself and I am now 55 years old.
I still think of her now and again, even after all these years.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:50:55 +0000

As medicine progresses and people can be kept alive indifinitely (with or without being conscious), it will get to be an interesting predicament of who continues to live.

By: paul

paul — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:52:54 +0000

Interesting article that raises some tough moral questions.