# Case (Diagnosing death). Barts Health NHS Trust v MC \[2025\] EWHC 3140 (Fam)

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— The patient's heartbeat was being preserved mechanically, which under her parents' interpretation of Islam meant their daughter was alive, despite brain stem death. The court declared that death had occurred.

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