Legal Opinion
Matter of Lawrance
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided September 16, 1991No. 29S04-9106-CV-00460PublishedCited by 144 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPARD, Chief Justice.
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-compagent 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, nonambu-latory, requir[ing] total care and ... only sustained by artificially delivered nutrition and hydration." Amended Order on Peti*35tion for Authority at 8. She died during the course of this appeal. Sue Ann had been healthy until…
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