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  • Flashback - Father in right-to-die case commits suicide - Courage

    03/31/2005 4:22:10 PM PST · by tallhappy · 70 replies · 1,886+ views
    AP ^ | Aug. 20, 1996 | Karen Testa
    Father in right-to-die case commits suicide By Karen Testa, Associated Press writer CARTERVILLE, Mo. -- A sheet-metal worker with a high school education, Joe Cruzan reluctantly waged a battle of national proportions to break new legal ground in the right-to-die movement. In the end, though, he was just a father whose heart was broken beyond repair when a 1983 auto accident left his daughter Nancy in a persistent vegetative state. Without publicity, without a fight in court, in the privacy of his carport, Joe Cruzan exercised his own right to die this weekend. He hanged himself. "Psychiatrists tell us that...