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Death of Marlise Muñoz
Marlise Nicole Muñoz (August 20, 1980 – November 28, 2013)〔 was an American woman at the center of a medical ethics controversy between November 2013 and January 2014. She suffered a suspected pulmonary embolism and was declared brain dead. Because she was pregnant, doctors at a Texas hospital kept her body on a ventilator in the intensive care unit despite the determination of brain death. Muñoz's husband entered a legal battle to have her removed from life support. A Texas law restricts the application of advance directives in pregnant patients, but Muñoz's husband argued that the law was not applicable because his wife was legally dead. A judge ordered the hospital to remove life support and her cardiac functions stopped on January 26, 2014.
==Background==
On November 26, Erick Muñoz found his 33-year-old wife unconscious in their family home and rushed her to John Peter Smith Hospital. The cause of her condition was speculated to be a pulmonary embolism. At the hospital it was also established that she was 14 weeks pregnant.〔 According to the hospital's lawyers, Marlise had been brain dead since November 28.〔 In Texas, brain death is considered the legal definition of death.
Marlise, a paramedic like her husband, had previously told him that in case of brain death, she would not want to be kept alive artificially. While she had been declared dead, the condition of her fetus was unknown. It was unclear whether the fetus sustained any injuries from her fall or the intervening time period before her body was stabilized at the hospital.
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