Editing Right to die (section)

=====Nancy Cruzan=====
[[File:Nancy Beth Cruzan, gravestone Wellcome L0025849.jpg|thumb|207x207px|Cruzan's gravestone]]

Another major case that further propagated the right to die movement and the use of living wills, advance directives and use of a proxy was ''[[Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health]]''. In 1983, Cruzan had a car accident, which left her permanently in a vegetative state. Her status as an adult and lack of an advance directive, living will, or proxy led to a long legal battle for Cruzan's family in petitioning for the removal of her feeding tube, which was keeping her alive since the accident. Cruzan had mentioned to a friend that under no circumstances would she want to continue to live if she were ever in a vegetative state, but this was not a strong enough statement to remove the feeding tube.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Greenhouse L | title = Right-to-Die Case Gets First Hearing in Supreme Court | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/07/us/right-to-die-case-gets-first-hearing-in-supreme-court.html | journal = The New York Times | date = 7 December 1989 | pages = A1, B26 | pmid = 11646739 }}</ref> Eventually, the Cruzan family won the case and had their daughter's tube removed. The case brought great debate if the right to die should be approved from state to state or as a whole nation.<ref name="Colby_2005">{{cite journal | vauthors = Colby WH | title = From Quinlan to Cruzan to Schiavo: What have we learned? | journal = Loyola University Chicago Law Journal | date = 2005 | volume = 37 | pages = 279 }}</ref>