Legal Opinion
Rishell v. Jane Phillips Episcopal Memorial Medical Center
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 21, 1993No. 92-6326PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN P. MOORE, Circuit Judge.
This case was initiated by the personal representative of a person who, while hospitalized in the defendant institution, failed in an attempt to end her own life. As a consequence of injuries arising from her abortive suicide, the person, Ms. Lacey, now exists in a permanent vegetative state in an institution in Louisiana specially able to care for her. Imprisoned within her- own body and deprived of mental capacity to make even the most insignificant , decisions for herself, she appears trapped in an artificial time warp between Oklahoma, the state where she…
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