Then he took an opposite tack, describing how Watson’s comatose body was unnaturally contracted, that he had chronic bedsores, and that it required two people to move him. Harvey compared him to Karen Ann Quinlan, the young Pennsylvania woman who lost consciousness in 1975 after consuming several drugs mixed with alcohol and lay in an irreversible coma while her religious family tried to have her removed from a respirator and returned to her “natural state.” Even after an appeals judge sided with the family and Ms. Quinlan was removed from the respirator, she lived for almost a decade with
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