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• Euthanasia—the right to end one’s Life

  
  Reason for Liberty — Authority: 116
  Shanbaug , a 61 year old woman , who suffered a brutal rape 36 years ago and has been lying in a vegetative state since last 36 years wants to culminate her pain and misery, her life. Her “Next Friend ” describes her as ‘‘Her bones are brittle. Her skin is like ‘papier mache’ stretched over a skeleton. ...
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• Plea for comatose rape victim revives euthansia debate

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) A petition to the apex court seeking its nod to let a rape victim lying comatose in a Mumbai hospital for the last 36 years die without being force-fed, has triggered a debate over legality of euthanasia, with various jurists seeking review of the laws that deem it illegal.The Supreme [...]
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• Bioethics in the News

  
  Aspire2 Blog — Authority: 125
  Today the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity sent this list of recent news stories relating to bioethics: ‘Ethical stem-cell work advances Several Massachusetts firms are forging ahead with ambitious stem-cell research plans, circumventing the heated debate over embryonic research by using other, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Consciousness-Edge

  
  FreThink — Authority: 99
  Image via Wikipedia There’s an interesting write-up and video at Edge on the nature of consciousness . From the introduction: On October 17, Edge organized a Reality Club meeting at The Hotel Ritz in Paris to allow neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene to present his new theory on how consciousness arises in ...
  3 weeks ago

• How reliable are persistent vegetative state diagnoses?

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 559
  Check out this article from The Weekly Standard. (H/T ECM) Excerpt: The case of Terri Schiavo–who died five years ago next March, deprived for nearly two weeks of food and water, even the balm of ice chips–continues to prick consciences. That may be one reason the case of Rom Houben, a Belgian man who was ...
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• Duty and Disability: Story of Rom Houben Reminds Us All Patients Deserve Respect

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  LifeNews.com Note: Christopher O. Tollefsen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina and a senior fellow of the Witherspoon Institute. He is the editor of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: The New Catholic Debate (Springer 2008). Tollefsen sits on the editorial board of Public Discourse, where ...
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• Belgian Case Reignites Brain Dead Debate as Catholics Order Force Feedings

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The family of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman who was artificially kept alive for 15 years, say they feel both heartbreak and vindication over the news this week that a Belgian man thought to be in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) was fully conscious for two decades. Schiavo, who had been diagnosed with a profound ...
  4 weeks ago

• Humans are never vegetables

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  If Rom Houbens case proves anything, it is the arrogance of those who think they can pronounce upon the state of a patients consciousness, and determine his subsequent fate--when humility should force them to admit they cannot possibly know what that patient may be experiencing. Houben is the Belgian man who spent 23 ...
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• Persistent Vegetative States and the Problem with Facilitated Communication

  
  Scepticon — Authority: 91
  If you read the print version of the NZ Herald today you would have seen featured on the front page a miraculous case of a man recovering from a persistent vegetative state and communicating with the world through a touch screen with the help of a carer. The topic of persistent vegetative state (PVS) is an interesting ...
  5 weeks ago

• Four in 10 ‘coma patients’ may be conscious, says expert (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  London, Nov 24 (IANS) The doctor who discovered a Belgian patient presumed to have been in a deep coma for 23 years while being conscious all along has said the breakthrough highlights a ‘locked-in syndrome’. The condition is described as one where patients are unable to show that they are conscious.Steven ...
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• Settled science [Darleen Click]

  
  protein wisdom — Authority: 141
  It has become quite evident that the case for Anthropogenic Global Warming transmogrified from science to ideology and politics quite a while ago. So, it may appear, for what constitutes “persistent vegetative state” A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative … [ visit site to read more ]
  5 weeks ago

• The little gods among us

  
  Athanatos Christian Apologetics Ministry — Authority: 91
  Courtesy of the Drudge Report today I’m treated to an article about a person who had been diagnosed as being in a coma who actually had been fully conscious for more than 20 years. The idea that somebody could be misdiagnosed as being in a ‘vegetative state’ takes on significance when we remember that in some ...
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• Patient rescued from 23 years in ‘coma’ was conscious all through (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  London, Nov 23 (IANS) A leading European neurologist has said many cases of brain injuries around the world are wrongly diagnosed as ‘coma’ after helping rescue a patient who was conscious all through the 23 years he was thought to be in coma.Steven Laureys, head of the Coma Science Group and Department of ...
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• Astounding case of Rom Houben: 23 years in ‘coma’, but conscious all along!

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  London, Nov 23 (IANS) A leading European neurologist has said many cases of brain injury around the world are wrongly diagnosed as ‘coma’ after discovering that a car-crash victim thought to have been in coma for the past 23 years was conscious all the time.Steven Laureys, head of the Coma Science Group and ...
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