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* Nancy Cruzan.  An American woman left in allegedly vegetative state after a car accident.

* Nancy Cruzan.  An American woman left in allegedly vegetative state after a car accident.

* Sue Rodriguez.  A Canadian woman with a terminal illness who desired an assisted suicide.

* Sue Rodriguez.  A Canadian woman with a terminal illness who desired an assisted suicide.

* Spiro Nikolouzos.  An American whose life support the hospital wished to end. His family fought this, claiming that the hospital wished to end his life purely because his Medicare coverage was running out. Under the Texas Futile Care Law, signed into law by [[George W. Bush]], then governor, the Texas hospital could legally override the will of a family if given approval by an ethics committee.

* Spiro Nikolouzos.  An American whose life support the hospital wished to end. His family fought this, claiming that the hospital wished to end his life purely because his Medicare coverage was running out. Under the Texas Futile Care Law, the Texas hospital could legally override the will of a family if given approval by an ethics committee.

*Haleigh Poutre.  An American child beaten into a coma by a foster parent whom the Commonwealth of [[Massachusetts]] is attempting to remove from life support.[http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/01/25/who_failed_haleigh_poutre/]

*Haleigh Poutre.  An American child beaten into a coma by a foster parent whom the Commonwealth of [[Massachusetts]] is attempting to remove from life support.[http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/01/25/who_failed_haleigh_poutre/]

*Jessie Ramirez.  An American man who suffered severe head trauma during a car accident, and was diagnosed as being a Persistent Vegetative State.  Based on this diagnosis, his wife requested that life support be removed only 1 week after the accident.  His parents fought to keep him on life support despite his wife's interference and an [[Arizona]] judge ordered his feeding tube replaced.  He recovered 3 weeks after the accident. [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858135/posts]

*Jessie Ramirez.  An American man who suffered severe head trauma during a car accident, and was diagnosed as being a Persistent Vegetative State.  Based on this diagnosis, his wife requested that life support be removed only 1 week after the accident.  His parents fought to keep him on life support despite his wife's interference and an [[Arizona]] judge ordered his feeding tube replaced.  He recovered 3 weeks after the accident. [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858135/posts]