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BARTLING v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. B007907.

163 Cal.App.3d 186 (1984)

209 Cal. Rptr. 220

WILLIAM FRANCIS BARTLING et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Defendant and Respondent; GLENDALE ADVENTIST MEDICAL CENTER et al., Real Parties in Interest and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Five.

December 27, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Malley, Yelsky, Rosenfeld & Scott, Richard Stanley Scott, Stephen A. Malley, George J. Annas and Leonard H. Glantz for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Fenella Rouse, Hufstedler, Miller, Carlson & Beardsley, Leonard L. Gumport and Michael Feuer as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

No appearance for Defendant and Respondent.

Wood, Lucksinger & Epstein, William H. Ginsberg, Gerald W. Connor and George James Stephan for Real Parties in Interest and Respondents.

Griffith David Thomas, Brad D. Selgestad, Fred Okrand and Paul Hoffman as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest and Respondents.

OPINION

HASTINGS, J.

In this case we are called upon to decide whether a competent adult patient, with serious illnesses which are probably incurable but have not been diagnosed as terminal, has the right, over the objection of his physicians and the hospital, to have life-support equipment disconnected despite the fact that withdrawal of such devices will surely hasten his death.

Petitioners are William Bartling and his wife...

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