The Nation : Right-to-Die Guidelines

The New Jersey Supreme Court broadly expanded the right-to-die guidelines it first laid down in the Karen Quinlan case, ruling that the wishes of a comatose or terminally ill person to refuse artificial life-support must be respected. Maintaining the leading position on right-to-die issues that it has held since the Quinlan decision more than a decade ago, the court ruled 6 to 1 in two separate cases that guardians for two comatose women being kept alive by feeding tubes have the right to order the tubes removed.