Martha Sue DeGRELLA, by and through her Guardian Ad Litem, Homer PARRENT, III, Appellant,
v.
Joseph G. ELSTON, Appellee.
Supreme Court of Kentucky.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
July 15, 1993.
July 15, 1993.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Homer Parrent, III, Parrent, Vish & Smither, Louisville, for appellant.
Mary Z. Ceridan, Bill V. Seiller, Handmaker & Seiller, ACLU Cooperating Attys., David A. Friedman, Gen. Counsel, American Civ. Liberties Union of Kentucky, Louisville, for appellee.
Vincent F. Heuser, Jr., Louisville, James Bopp, Jr., Thomas J. Marzen, Daniel Avila, John Altomare, Indianapolis, IN, for amicus, Ethics & Advocacy Task Force.
Gerald Kirven, Louisville, for amicus, Kirven, Member of the Bar.
Laurance B. VanMeter, Stoll, Keenon & Park, Lexington, for amicus, Ky. Assoc. of Hospices.
Benjamin J. Lookofsky, Mayfield, for amicus, Jane Doe.
Charles J. Cronan, IV, Martha J. Hasselbacher, Stites & Harbison, Louisville, for amicus, Jefferson Co. Medical Soc.
Chris Gorman, Atty. Gen., Thomas J. Hellmann, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civ. Div., Frankfort, for amicus, Atty. Gen.
Edgar A. Zingman, Susan B. Turner, Carole D. Christian, Lori E. Raff, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, Louisville, for amicus, Kentucky Hosp. Assoc.
Ann E. Fade, Director of Legal Services, Choice in Dying, Inc., New York City, Patricia Walker Fitzgerald, Walker & Radigan, Louisville, for amicus, Choice in Dying, Inc.
Supreme Court of Kentucky.
LEIBSON, Justice.
This is the first of the so-called "right to die" cases, spawned by modern medical technology, to reach this Court.1
As a result of a tragic beating inflicted upon her on February 22, 1983, Martha Sue DeGrella (Sue) sustained an acute subdural hematoma causing severe brain damage for which medical treatment was of no benefit. She now languishes, slowly wasting away, in a persistent vegetative state at the Lyndon...
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