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Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
GALESBURG -- William H. Colby, one of the attorneys in Nancy Cruzan case, the only "right-to-die" case ever heard by the United States Supreme Court, will give a talk about his new book, "Long Goodbye: The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan," at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 19, in Ferris Lounge, Seymour Union, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.
Photo: William H. Colby. Download for publication.
Colby represented the family of Nancy Cruzan, who was critically injured in a 1983 car wreck and lay in a coma for seven years, as various courts blocked the family's wish to remove a feeding tube. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Cruzan family had to show their daughter did not want to have her life artificially preserved. When the family presented evidence to the Missouri courts, they received permission to remove the feeding tube in December 1990, and Cruzan died later the same month. Colby has spoken throughout the United States on ethical and legal issues related to death and dying, and was a featured speaker at a lectures series on the topic at Knox in 2001.
Colby is a Knox College graduate, honorary degree recipient and commencement speaker. He received his bachelor's degree in English at Knox in 1977 and his law degree at University of Kansas in 1982. He is a fellow at the Midwest Bioethics Center in Kansas City and teaches at the University of Kansas School of Law.
Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 48 states and 40 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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