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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1975
Page
7
AP Newsfeatures writer John Barbour surveys the Karen Ann Quinlan case and the broader medical dilemma. Physicians balance life prolongation with suffering, asking parents for permission to withdraw or modify care. Doctors note bedsides, intensive care, and life-sustaining machines complicate decisions while families seek decisive guidance.
Doctors at Columbia Presbyterian New York weigh the ethics of life extending treatment for critically ill patients. While intensive care prolongs life, follow up shows many die within a year and some argue against keeping patients alive indiscriminately. One physician notes terminal cystic fibrosis cases are not placed on respirators. At Presbyterian, an estimated 40 to 50 of 1600 beds involve life prolonging measures at any time.
A physician considers the conflicted duties in end of life care, noting family desires, patient autonomy, and looming malpractice fears. Stories of living wills, patient rights, and the emotional toll on doctors, families, and colleagues reveal a fragile balance between saving life and accepting death.
The University of Iowa group notes a trend to include brain death in death definitions. Laws in Colorado California Kansas Michigan Oregon and West Virginia aim to ensure donor organ supply by recognizing loss of spontaneous brain function as death. A Michigan committee outlines EEG, pupil, and reflex criteria to verify brain death for transplantation relevance.
Five Irish descent men indicted by a federal grand jury in Philadelphia on conspiring to illegally acquire 378 rifles and 10 000 rounds of ammunition for the Irish Republican Army. They are charged as IRA agents and four face weapons shipments without licenses. Named defendants include Neil Byrnt, Daniel Cahalane, Daniel Duffy, Vincent Conlon, and Thomas Regan, all former Philadelphia residents now believed to be in Ireland.
In Oakland California a bank robbery ended with the suspect, 22 year old Robert Donnelly, recognizing his old classmate who identified him. He fled the Bank of Amplies branch but was picked up a few hours later after a taller classmate called out his name.
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