IN RE ESTATE OF LONGEWAY

No. 67318.

133 Ill.2d 33 (1989)

549 N.E.2d 292

In re ESTATE OF LONGEWAY (Bonnie Keiner, Appellant, v. Community Convalescent Center, Appellee).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied January 29, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rev. Eugene P. Parnisari, of Naperville, for appellant.

Thomas J. Cisar, Peter P. Gaddy and Mary A. Jennings, of Cisar & Gaddy, of Oak Brook, for appellee.

John Grotto, of Grotto & Van Der Molen, of Wheaton, for the guardian ad litem.

Fenella Rouse, Elena N. Cohen and M. Rose Gasner, of New York, New York (Richard Wasserman, of Zavin, Sinnreich & Wasserman, of New York, New York, of counsel), and Lawrence R. Samuels, of Ross & Hardies, of Chicago, all for amicus curiae Society for the Right to Die, Inc.

Kirk B. Johnson, Edward B. Hirshfeld and Terrie A. Rymer, of Chicago, and Carter G. Phillips, Mark E. Haddad and Joseph R. Guerra, of Sidley & Austin, of Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae American Medical Association.


Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Bonnie Keiner, daughter and guardian of the estate and person of Dorothy M. Longeway, petitioned the circuit court of Du Page County to enter an order permitting her to withdraw the artificially administered nutrition and hydration currently sustaining her mother. Community Convalescent Center, the nursing facility where Longeway now resides, intervened and filed a motion to dismiss. The...

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