Karen Ann Quinlan, focus of right to die case, dies 30 years ago this hour (June 11 1985)


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(Tuesday, June 11, 1985, 7:01 p.m. EDT)Karen Ann Quinlan, who slipped into a coma 10 years ago and became the center of a national debate on the definition of life and the right to die, died tonight at a nursing home in Morris Plains, New Jersey. She was 31 years old.