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HARVARD CIVIL RIGHTS-CIVIL LIBERTIES LAW REVIEW A Matter of Life Death: Advocates in New York Respond to Medical Repatriation By, Nisha Agarwal and Liane Aronchick1 Originally published on Amicus at /2011/02/04/article-a-matter-of-life- death-advocates-in-new-york-respond-to-medical-repatriation/ On the afternoon of February 28, 2000, Luis Alberto Jiménez was returning home from 2 work when he was hit by a drunk driver in a stolen van near Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Mr. Jiménez was rushed to Martin Memorial Hospital Center (“Martin Memorial”), where he was stabilized, but only after suffering severe brain damage and significant physical injuries.3 A ording to his cousin and eventual guardian, Montejo Gaspar Montejo, “He was no longer Luis . . . . He didn’t talk. He didn’t understand anything. He stayed curled up in a ball. But he 4 was alive.” Around the same time, on the opposite coast of Florida, a young woman named Terri Schiavo remained in a persistent vegetative state after suffering cardiac and respiratory arrest. Her situation and Mr. Jiménez’s sparked a several-years-long legal, political, and media maelstrom about who should live and who can die in the modern American medical system. In the Schiavo case, the loudest public voices were demanding life, even though, absent a “true miracle,” Ms. Schiavo would “always remain in an unconscious, reflexive state, totally 5 dependent upon others to feed her and care for her most private needs.” Meanwhile, when it came to Mr. Jiménez, the loudest voices seemed comfortable with death