by APFLI | May 24, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
In September 2006, 20 neurology experts from all over the world met to discuss the prevailing definition of brain death, that human death occurs when there is “the complete and irreversible cessation of all brain activity including the brain stem”. After 2...
by APFLI | May 19, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
If a patient is able to process oxygen from the lungs into the bloodstream, maintain a normal body temperature, digest food and expel waste, grow to normal adult size from the age of four to twenty, and even carry a child to term, can he or she be considered dead? Can...
by APFLI | May 19, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
One of the medical world’s key diagnostic tools for determining “brain death” preliminary to organ retrieval, actually causes the severe brain damage it purports to determine, neurologist Dr. Cicero Coimbra told attendees at a conference last week....