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Fanny Stein has a disease that most people would dread. It has left her with a completely functional mind and no use of her body from the neck down. She cannot bathe herself nor wipe her own nose. She cannot turn the pages of a book. She cannot even eat food by mouth. She can still talk, but someday she will also lose this ability. Yet she would prefer to continue living in her present condition to ending her life. As long as she is able to breathe on her own and is not put on a respirator, she wants to continue her life. Her two grown daughters agree with her.
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Sturman, R.L. (2003). The Case of Fanny. In: Six Lives in Jerusalem. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1052-8_6
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