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JOHN F. KENNEDY MEMORIAL HOSP. v. BLUDWORTH

No. 82-552.

432 So.2d 611 (1983)

JOHN F. KENNEDY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, INC., a Florida Corporation; Gladys Landy, Individually and As the Duly Appointed Guardian of the Person of Francis Landy, Deceased; and Roger Crews, M.D., Appellants, v. The Honorable David H. BLUDWORTH, State Attorney, in and for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

May 25, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Day of Shutts & Bowen, West Palm Beach, and Harvey J. Garod of Shutts & Bowen, Lake Worth, for appellants.

David H. Bludworth, State Atty., and Lisa J. Campbell, Asst. State Atty., West Palm Beach, for appellee.

HERSEY, Judge.

The issue raised by this appeal is one of life or death, or, more precisely, life without consciousness as opposed to death with dignity: Under what circumstances may artificial life sustaining procedures be terminated in the case of a comatose, terminally ill patient.

On April 10, 1981, Francis B. Landy was taken to John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital. He was terminally ill and within a few days lapsed...

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