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| People can claim autonomy over their fate if they wind up in a persistent vegetative state by registering "living wills" documents that state specifically what treatments they would and would not accept in such a condition. Prodded by Religious Right groups, Congress passed a special law designed to keep Schiavo, a brain-damaged Florida woman in a persistent vegetative state, connected to a feeding tube, despite her husband's wishes. The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office won a major case Thursday when a jury rejected a $50 million lawsuit filed on behalf of a 26-year-old East Los Angeles woman who has been in a vegetative state since a car crash involving an LAPD officer in 2004. |
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