Frontline

Season 6, Episode 11

Episode Title: Let My Daughter Die

Air Date: 1988-03-01

Overview:

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.