William Colby, Esq.

Bill Colby is the Senior Fellow, Law and Patient Rights, with the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City. He is the lawyer who represented the family of Nancy Cruzan in their family's right-to-die case, the first such case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. Bill has been interviewed on Larry King Live, CNN, MSNBC, Hardball, FoxNews, Good Morning America, NPR, Today, CBS This Morning, and similar programs, and speaks across the country on the issues we face at the end of life. USA Today published his op ed on the Schiavo case, and his work has also appeared in the Dallas Morning News, Kansas City Star, Omaha World-Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, Florida Sun-Sentinel, Austin American-Statesman, Palm Beach Post, and other publications. Bill's new book, Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America (AMACOM 2006), was chosen by the Library Journal as a "Best Consumer Health Books of 2006." He is also the author of Long Goodbye: The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan (Hay House, 2003). Website: www.PracticalBioethics.org.