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Line 8: − * Angel Raich - A women who is currently in a court battle in the USA. She too may die of forced starvation.
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==Similar cases==
==Similar cases==
* Nancy Cruzan - An American women left in allegedly vegetative state after a car accident.
* Nancy Cruzan - An American women 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 H. 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, signed into law by George H. W. Bush, then governor, the Texas hospital could legally override the will of a family if given approval by an ethics committee.