The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Quinlan’s and the settlement was permission to have the respirator removed. It was stated that someone who is terminally ill can refuse medical treatment if that is what they would have wanted. The plaintiffs were able to prove that was what Karen wanted. The Quinlan’s did decide to leave in the feeding tube. An unexpected outcome was that she breathed on her own for many years. Unfortunately, she lived in a persistent vegetative state up to her passing from pneumonia in 1985. Even though Quinlan was removed from active life support in 1976, she was in a coma for nearly a decade up until her passing from pneumonia. I believe that in certain situations you should have the right to choose to die. When you
