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in Austin., the house passed and sent to the senate a bill establishing a medical school at Texas Tech. n i-OtO , a psychiatrist told a medical conference today that there's no value in keeping people alive with tuber, w m n oxygen tent; after they are
for al1 prrctical purposes, dead.
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Doctor E.J. Yr o.:.T wiYh the Z Grduate school of medicine in Rochester, Ninnesota. Doctor Rynearson said the decision to end life should be the agreement of dedicated, intelligent psycicians that the individual could not; possibly recover Sn iouses T lheni with the unLer:tancing and consent of relatives and spiritual advisors, the
physicians should allow the patient to die.
The
doctor said there is one well-documented case of a woman being kept alive 15 years without one moment of consciousness. Doctor Hyneurson said this practice often exhauts the patient's family emotionally and