Whose Life Is It Wanyway?
WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY?
During the past year, a Broadway play entitled, Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1) by Brian Clark, has portrayed dramatically the problem of what type of care to give people who may be kept alive in a conscious state but whose level of human activity would be impaired drastically. This problem is solved rather easily when the person in question is rather old, in an irreversible coma and near death from natural causes. Then there is little question that life supporting means may be removed and "nature allowed to take its course." But when the person concerned is conscious and states that he or she does not wish to live an impaired life with mechanical support systems, what judgment should be made? "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" offers a means to consider this problem.
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Ken Harrison is a young sculptor who had a very serious automobile accident. Six months after the accident, he is still in the hospital and "as a result of treatment, all the......
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