The way Americans used to spend the last days, weeks and months of their lives was considerably different 40 years ago when Karen Ann Quinlan died after her parents fought in New Jersey to remove a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Americans cherish their freedoms — the inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ingrained in the ...

Joseph Fennelly, a Morris County physician who became a key figure in the "right-to-die" movement that gained prominence in the legal battle over the fate of Karen Ann Quinlan, has died, according to ...

Julia Quinlan has devoted more than four decades to providing hospice care in memory of her daughter, Karen Ann. Now, the facility she founded is looking to celebrate her birthday by raising funds to ...

The fight over Karen Ann Quinlan's care helped establish a legal right to die in the U.S. The Morris County woman's family went to court to remove her life support after she fell into an irreversible ...

In the wake of the Quinlan case, patients began demanding that they have a bigger say in their treatment, especially if they become incapacitated and are near the end of life. Today, hospice has ...