RIGHT-TO-DIE CASE ENDS AFTER 5 YEARS

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, March 8, 1993                   TAG: 9303080046
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: ST. LOUIS                                LENGTH: Short
RIGHT-TO-DIE CASE ENDS AFTER 5 YEARS
A five-year battle over Christine Busalacchi's right to die ended with the severely brain-injured woman's death Sunday after her feeding tube was removed. She was 22.
The comatose woman's feeding tube was disconnected after a team of neuroscientists at Barnes Hospital determined that she was in a persistent vegetative state, the hospital said. The hospital didn't say when the tube was removed.
Busalacchi had been comatose since suffering severe head injuries in a 1987 traffic accident. She had been the subject of a long and often bitter court struggle over whether her father, Peter, had the right to allow her feeding tube to be disconnected.
Peter Busalacchi also decided to end life support for his late wife, Barbara, who died in 1972 at age 23 after suffering from a terminal intestinal disease. Christine Busalacchi was their only child.
- Associated Press

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB