Imagine that you or one of your family members are in a persistent vegetative state, a conduction in which a medical patient is completely unresponsive to physical and psychological stimuli and shows no signs of high brain function, being kept alive only by medical intervention. It would be more than difficult to imagine, but for the Cruzan family, it was a reality. Nancy Cruzan was in a car accident that resulted in serious injuries. Nancy was in an unconscious state and completely unresponsive to her daily activities. She was in a plant state with a feeding tube implanted in her stomach. Over the years, the family decided they wanted the feeding tube removed so Nancy could have the peace she needed. The Supreme Court didn't entirely agree with the family's decision to remove the feeding tube. The Supreme Court has seized on the family's good decision to remove Nancy Cruzan's feeding tube because her family knows what is best for her rather than someone who knows almost nothing about her. On January 11, 1983, Nancy Cruzan was in a car accident. Her car overturned while driving on Elm Road in Jasper County, Missouri. Nancy was found lying in a snow-covered ditch. She was deprived of oxygen for approximately 12 minutes. Only half the time she suffered from a lack of oxygen that caused permanent brain damage. Nancy was then taken to hospital and was reportedly in a persistent vegetative state due to extensive brain damage from the lack of oxygen she had. His entire body ran solely on internal controls, which maintained heart rate, reflex activity of muscles and nerves for low-level conditional responses to body temperature, as well as the digestive tract. "Although PVS is very serious, Nancy showed... middle of paper... something about herself other than the accident and her current condition. Nancy was truly helpless, nothing could be done to help her, she could only lie there. The state's argument that life itself does not matter, no matter how good it is, was shameful. But actually, if you really think about it, she's the one who lives and lives. She can't speak, nor can she do anything a living person can do, except breathe. It is not because it breathes that it “lives”. The family should have decided what is best for Nancy, not the court, especially using these arguments. The Cruzan family suffered a great loss when Nancy was in a car accident, and suffered an even greater loss by not giving her peace. we would always hope so. Ultimately, she died peacefully having her feeding tube removed, but it shouldn't have taken this long to decide if it was right or wrong..