Sentence examples for removing life from inspiring English sources

Lawyers involved in the case said Thursday that they had been told by the court that it would temporarily halt the hospital from removing life support.

They insisted, instead, that the law was meant to bar removing life support from a living woman carrying a child — not the body of a woman who had died while pregnant.

For children or mentally incompetent people in New York, the courts have been left to determine whether removing life support is in the patient's best interest, even though a 1992 report of the American Medical Association states, "Due to the love that parents have for their children, they are most likely to make decisions that promote their children's best interest".

The Texas law also contains the provision that prohibits removing life support from a pregnant patient: "A person may not withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment under this subchapter from a pregnant patient".

Despite the patient's stated wish -- according to her parents -- "not to be left on life support," the Texas hospital invoked a state law that prohibits doctors from removing life support from pregnant patients.

Moderate heat, such as that applied by Microwave or steam, breaks down the internal structure of food, softening it (and removing life such as bacteria by a certain temperature) and sometimes drying it out.

This physician-assisted redefinition of death meant that removing life-support machinery from these patients was no longer ethically suspect.

In the case of Ms. Munoz, the physician told the family that the hospital would not comply with the request to remove life support based on the Texas law that prohibits removal of life support from pregnant patients.

The decision to remove life support had already been made.

After they decided to remove life support, they were asked about organ donation, and quickly agreed.

Doctors said the baby was unlikely to survive, and the family removed life supports.