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Subject: Happy Birthday Karen Quinlan
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Date: Mon, 23-Apr-84 06:25:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 23 06:25:34 1984
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reprinted from American Medical News 4/13/84

Karen Ann Quinlan turned 30 years old March 29 in a New Jersey
nursing home where she has lived for most of the eight years since
her respirator was disconnected in May, 1976.

Quinlan's case became famous when her parents sought court
permission to remove her from a respirator after physicians said
she would never regain consciousness.

She lost consciousness following a friend's birthday party in 1975.

The New Jersey Supreme Court granted permission to disconnect the
respirator in March, 1976, and she has remained  in a permanent
vegaetative state since it was disconnected.