Identify a TRUE statement about the Quinlan case.

A. Throughout her stay in the hospital, an intravenous tube fed Karen.
B. Karen had isoelectric or "flat" electroencephalograms (EEGs).
C. Karen's brain could receive input from her eyes.
D. Karen lost her brain function from a synergistic reaction of barbiturates, benzodiazepines, and alcohol taken on an empty stomach.
E. Despite popular belief in 1975, under New Jersey law, Karen was brain-dead because her whole brain was not functioning.


Answer: D

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