MACK v. MACK

No. 29, September Term, 1992.

329 Md. 188 (1993)

618 A.2d 744

DEANNA MACK v. RONALD E. MACK.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 2, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Christopher Brown (Rachel A. Wohl, Brown, Goldstein & Levy, all on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Leslie Fried (Legal Aid Bureau, Silver Spring), Joan O'Sullivan (Legal Aid Bureau, Annapolis), Eileen Franch (Legal Aid Bureau, Baltimore), amicus curiae.

Gary I. Strausberg (Wayne M. Willoughby, Randal D. Getz, Janet & Strausberg, all on brief), Baltimore, Edward J. Gillis (Royston, Mueller, McLean & Reid, both on brief), Towson, for respondent.

Timothy J. Keay (Dept. of Family Medicine, Baltimore), amicus curiae.

Jack Schwartz, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Mary O'Malley Lunden, Asst. Atty. Gen., all on brief), Baltimore, amicus curiae.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, and ROBERT M. BELL, JJ.


RODOWSKY, Judge.

This case involves an application to withhold nutrition and hydration administered through a gastrostomy tube to a previously competent, adult, hospital patient who has been in a persistent vegetative state since June 1983, but who is not terminally ill. Because the evidence was inconclusive concerning any intent that the patient had, or would have, concerning the continuation or withholding of artificial nutrition and hydration under these circumstances...

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