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...doctor says Earle Spring should be allowed to die. Spring's wife and son concur. So does a probate court judge. Yet last week Spring, 78, who is senile, was still receiving the kidney dialysis treatments that sustain his life, while Justice Francis J. Quirico, of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, tried to decide if there was any new evidence to justify reopening arguments on whether Spring himself would prefer to die. Quirico's decision could be important for the increasing numbers of Americans who, though severely ill like Spring, could be kept alive for years by modern...
...leading the legal fight to preserve Spring's life: "You can get a yes or no answer to any question, but that does not mean he understands the question." Nevertheless Berson appealed Keedy's decision, arguing that Spring might have regained a degree of competence, and Justice Quirico has agreed to a hearing. Meantime, the dialysis, Spring's life-and his family's agony...