Quinlan, Joseph

Quinlan, Joseph
▪ 1997

      U.S. "right-to-die" advocate who spearheaded the movement that tackled the ethical, legal, theological, and medical issues in prolonging the lives of the terminally ill after his daughter Karen Ann slipped into a coma in 1975; his daughter, who was removed from a respirator in 1976 after a landmark New Jersey Supreme Court ruling, died of pneumonia in 1985 (b. April 2, 1925—d. Dec. 7, 1996).

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