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Marlise Munoz's family names fetus as part of mourning process. Jan. 28, 2014— -- The husband of a pregnant brain-dead Texas woman who was removed from life support on Sunday has named the ...
On Sunday, someone switched off the machines inside a Texas hospital that kept Marlise Muñoz’s heart and lungs working. Her family spoke to CNN on Wednesday in their first national television ...
The devices that had kept Marlise Munoz’s heart and lungs working for two months were switched off about 11:30 a.m. Sunday, her family’s attorneys announced. “May Marlise Munoz finally rest ...
Marlise Muñoz was a 33-year-old who, pregnant with her second child, was found unconscious. Her husband Erick, immediately called for help, but despite medicine’s best efforts at life-support ...
John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth complied Sunday with a judge's order to pull any life-sustaining treatment from Marlise Munoz, who was declared brain-dead in November, but kept on machines ...
Marlise Munoz was declared brain-dead after collapsing at her Texas home But she was kept on life support for the sake of her 23-week-old fetus Recent report said average cost per hospital stay ...
The hospital acknowledged in court documents for the first time on Friday that Marlise Munoz was brain dead and her fetus was not viable, The Dallas Morning News reported. The hospital filed a ...
So it must have been with a feeling of disbelief and horror that Munoz knelt across the nearly lifeless body of his wife, Marlise, on the kitchen floor at 2 a.m., his fingers linking across her ...
A undated family photo shows Marlise Muñoz with husband Erick and their son, Marco. Because she was pregnant when she suffered a pulmonary embolism, she was kept on life support measures against ...
A ventilator that had kept Marlise Munoz's heart and lungs functioning for two months was switched off at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, a family attorney said. State District Judge R.H. Wallace ordered ...
The saga of Marlise Muñoz has been well-documented over the past few weeks. It became a national flashpoint for an ethical and legal debate that saw Muñoz—who, after suffering a pulmonary ...