Brain Death: Is That Dead Enough?It is now considered by the medical profession and supported by legal and some ethical consensus that if a person's entire brain is dead, the person is dead. The reason is that if the entire brain is destroyed, there is absence of spontaneous breathing and expected cessation of heartbeat soon. It is on the basis of this concept that all life support treatments which the patient may have had in place before brain death has been established can be removed because the patient is now dead. It also provides the opportunity to obtain organs from a brain dead patient, who had previously given consent, while the organs are still in good condition for transplantation. Families of a brain dead patient may have to be educated about the physiology. However, some religious groups and even some health care workers are uncomfortable with a brain death definition of death since the patient may still have a heart beat and wish to wait until there is persisting absence of heart beat, the classical criterion.
Here is the question:
What do you think about brain death as a criterion for death and how do you look at the implications of such a criterion?
sunshine33
once a person is brain dead there is no hope that they will recover and resume the life they once led. For myself I would want my family to let me go. Even if they are capable of hearing what is around them what torture it would be to be unable to respond. As a christian I believe once I die I will immediately go to heaven to live forever and I would choose that over being trapped in a shell of a body.
Royce Ann M
If a person is brain dead they can not live without life support. Yes if the body can not live without artificial means and the brain shows no activities then withdraw life support. Technically you can keep a body alive with out a head. That does not mean they are alive.
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