Marking the 40th Anniversary of In re Quinlan’s Landmark Contribution to Death & Dying Jurisprudence
by Norman L. Cantor In 1976, the N.J. Supreme Court issued a remarkably insightful ruling regarding the legal status of a permanently unconscious patient. In re Quinlan served as a judicial beacon guiding development of death & dying jurisprudence. Its impact is reminiscent of the judicial role played by Brown v. Board of Education in…