by APFLI | Jun 9, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings, Uncategorized
A car accident left 19-year-old Dylan Rizzo in a coma. This is the story of the long, perilous crawl to recovery. Dylan Rizzo, April 2015. Photo: Dylan Coulter for New York Magazine Day Zero Despite its encircling fortress of bone, the human brain is especially...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A Quebec philosopher and ethicist has proposed that governments promote organ harvesting by offering tax credits to the individual’s family members. But according to one expert on ‘brain death,’ people are right to have a healthy fear of organ harvesting and, rather...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A 23-yr-old woman, supposedly in a “vegetative state” stunned doctors by responding to certain commands asked of her. The results have been displayed in brain imaging showing more is going on in her head than meets the eye. Although the unnamed woman...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
Kate, 36, communicates through a keyboard. Scientists have shown for the first time that a person diagnosed as being in a vegetative state can communicate. In 1997, when Kate was 26, she caught an acute viral infection. It was so serious that it confined her to a...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
As campaigners use the “hard cases” of severely disabled people to push for legalised assisted suicide and euthanasia in Britain, Pink and McNeilly urged sufferers not to give up on life. When Kerry Pink, an interior designer, was 35 in 1997 she fell ill with an...
