Showing posts with label right to die. Show all posts
Showing posts with label right to die. Show all posts

2.12.2013

Terminally ill woman who battled with her family over life support dies at 28

Just heard this sad news out of New York... Grace Sung Eun Lee, the terminally ill cancer patient who clashed with her devoutly religious parents last year in a legal battle over her right to die, only to later change her mind, died over the weekend. She was 28: Ill Woman, Kept Alive by Family, Dies at 28.

Lee, who was paralyzed from the neck down by a brainstem tumor and unable to breathe on her own, had moved back home to parents' home in Queens with a life support system. She passed away Sunday night after her ventilator reportedly stopped working properly:

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