This HealthProfBlog post provides an insightful analysis of the legal issues raised by the decision of Texas Children’s Hospital earlier in the week to take Sun Hudson, the nearly 6-month-old who had been diagnosed and slowly dying from a rare form of dwarfism (thanatophoric dysplasia), off the ventilator that was keeping him alive. A Houston state district court had authorized the hospital’s action, and Sun died shortly after being removed from life support.