POSITION PAPERS: BRAIN DEATH
Pope John Paul II and the neurological standard for the determination of death: A critical analysis of his address to the Transplantation Society
DOYEN NGUYEN Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome, Italy The introduction of the “brain death” criterion constitutes a significant paradigm shift in the determination of [...]
“Brain Death” is neither Human Death nor its Sign
An Answer to Condic, Lee, Moschella and other Defenders of Brain Death Definitions and Criteria of Human Death Josef Seifert† 2018 Abstract After an introduction, the [...]
You Only Die Once: Why Brain Death is Not the Death of a Human Being!
D. Alan Shewmon: [My argument] has revealed the total absence of any compelling philosophical or scientific reason to interpret brain-mediated somatic integration as constitutive of the [...]
“Brain death” is a medical fiction invented to harvest organs from living people: expert
ROME, March 20, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Is it morally permissible to harvest the organs of a person in a coma declared “brain dead” by doctors? Why [...]
You only die once: why brain death is not the death of a human being
D. Alan Shewmon [My argument] has revealed the total absence of any compelling philosophical or scientific reason to interpret brain-mediated somatic integration as constitutive of the [...]
Brain Death or Brain dying
D. Alan Shewmon, MD For the past 50 years, the medical profession has understood ‘‘brain death’’ to represent the endpoint of a neuropathologic vicious cycle. [...]