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* 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.
*Haleigh Poutre - An American child beaten into a coma by a foster parent that the State of Massachusetts is attempting to kill.[http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/01/25/who_failed_haleigh_poutre/]
* Angel Raich - a pot-user who has lost several legal battles with the United States. She alleges her appetite is insufficiently stimulated by legal pharmacology.
* Angel Raich - a pot-user who has lost several legal battles with the United States. She alleges her appetite is insufficiently stimulated by legal pharmacology.