The line between life and death seems simple, but changes to the law behind it could spark another culture war.
“Thad: We are dealing with human beings,” Nguyen wrote in the chat. “This is not the place nor the time to impose uniformity for uniformity sake.”
A North Dakota doctor by the name of Christopher DeCock, who opted for the bridge of the original Starship Enterprise as his background, used another fantasy tale to make his fandom of Team Irreversible known., where you’re mostly dead,” he says, paraphrasing Billy Crystal’s comedic relief healer Miracle Max from the 1987 classic. “Either you’re dead or you’re not dead.”
In 1968, faced with this brave new world of organ transplantation, a small team convened at Harvard University to sort out a modern legal definition of death.
“It did strike me that there was something odd,” he told The Daily Beast. “We can use medical testing to decide when your kidneys aren’t working, when your lungs aren’t working, when your heart’s not working. And then we use science to think about how to address that.” In the book, Truog argues that, had it not been for the advent of vital organ transplantation, brain death as a concept likely would never have been invented. In his view, the idea of brain death was just a convenient way for doctors to avoid contravening their Hippocratic oath, “First, do no harm.”
“I know Bob Truog and I respect Bob Truog a lot. I think he’s a thought leader,” Sam Shemie, a pediatric critical care doctor at the Montreal Children’s Hospital who has written extensively on brain death, told The Daily Beast. But, “the arguments that are put forward against brain death are quite repetitive and tiring.”
Nailah Winkfield, mother of Jahi McMath, sits with her husband, Martin Winkfield, left, while attending a court hearing to discuss the treatment of 13-year-old daughter Jahi McMath in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013.Pope noted that for every case that becomes widely known, many others remain obscure. It’s impossible to say just how frequent lawsuits involving the UDDA and its variants have become.
Dozens of organizations representing medical experts from around the world, including the World Federation of Neurology, endorsed the initiative.
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