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IN RE BOWMAN

No. 46582.

94 Wn.2d 407 (1980)

617 P.2d 731

In the Matter of the Welfare of WILLIAM MATTHEW BOWMAN.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

October 2, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Deno (of Cogdill, Deno & Millikan), for appellant.

Bart Waldman (of Perkins, Coie, Stone, Olsen & Williams), for respondent Children's Orthopedic Hospital.

Slade Gorton, Attorney General, and Bruce P. Clausen, Assistant, for respondent State.

A.J. Losee, for respondent Jane Bowman.

Steven C. Gilyeart on behalf of State Medical Association, Stimson Bullitt on behalf of State Hospital Association, and James M. Vache, amici curiae.

UTTER, C.J.

This is an appeal by the guardian ad litem appointed for William Matthew Bowman (Matthew) prior to Matthew's death, from the decision of the Snohomish County Superior Court ruling that because he had suffered irreversible loss of brain activity, he was in fact dead on October 17, 1979. Issues raised on appeal are: (1) whether law or medicine should define the standards establishing when death occurs; (2) if law...

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