Living or Not Living? That Is the Question
COMMENTARY: The debate over brain death has no easy answer but requires astute attentiveness to science, Church teaching and the sanctity of human life.
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What Every Catholic Should Really Know About Brain Death
COMMENTARY: It is vitally important for scholars to continue deliberating the validity of the neurological criterion to inform the Catholic magisterium’s discernment of whether what they learn of brain death continues to cohere with the Church’s traditional understanding of the nature of the human person.
Jahi McMath Dies Four Years After Being Declared Brain-Dead
The teen defied the medical definition of brain death, and her family’s fight to spare her life has fueled other challenges to this complicated medical diagnosis.
Doctors Push to Allow Death by Organ Donation
A recent study claims the majority of Americans would support ditching the ‘dead-donor rule’ for organ extraction.
Jahi McMath Videos Highlight Uncertainty of ‘Brain Death’ Diagnoses
Doctors disagree on how to diagnose death, but the 13-year-old ‘corpse’ appears to move when her mother asks her to do so.
