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• Title: Matter Sue Ann Lawrance an Incompetent
• Author : Supreme Court of Indiana No. 29S04-9106-CV-00460
• Release Date : January 16, 1991
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 83 KB

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The question is whether the parents of a patient in a persistent vegetative state may authorize the withdrawal of artificially
provided nutrition and hydration from their never-competent daughter. We hold that they may. Case History When this litigation began, Sue Ann Lawrance was a forty-two year old woman who was "completely nonverbal, nonambulatory,
requiring total care and . . . only sustained by artificially delivered nutrition and hydration." Amended Order on Petition
for Authority at 3. She died during the course of this appeal. Sue Ann had been healthy until the age of nine, when she displayed
symptoms of intracranial pressure and underwent a craniotomy. She suffered permanent brain damage and attended special schools
and camps for the mentally handicapped. From at least 1966 to 1979, Sue Ann suffered balancing problems and seizures which
became more frequent over time. In 1987, she fell while attending camp and underwent a second craniotomy. On July 24, 1987,
she was admitted to the Manor House nursing home in Noblesville. She remained in a persistent vegetative state from approximately
that time until her death.

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