Tập
Frontline: Episode 11
Tóm tắt
Joe and Joyce Cruzan want doctors to remove their severely brain damaged daughter from the life-support system that keeps her alive. Nearly two years before it became the US Supreme Court’s first right-to-die case, Frontline explored the complex legal and moral issues of this Missouri couple’s battle to allow their daughter to die.
Chi tiết
- Phim bộ
- Frontline
- Mùa
- Mùa 6
- Tập
- Tập 11
- Ngày phát sóng
- 1988-03-01
Thông tin tập
Episode 11 là tập 11 trong Season 6 của Frontline. Tập này phát sóng ngày 1988-03-01.
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