Tag: brain death

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 5, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethicists, brain, brain death, cardiac arrest, circulation, comatose, consciousness, equality, health care, heart, human life, intention, medicine, memory, New York Times, organ donors, organ-harvesting, organs, patients, trust}

Killing for Organs — Who Could Possibly Object?

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 5, 2025

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine

4}

Three doctors promote the idea of “redefining death” to allow patients to be killed for their organs. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adrian Owen, awareness, brain, brain activity, brain death, brain injury, dualism, evidence, failed predictions, fMRI, functional MRI, materialism, mental states, mind, persistent vegetative state, predictions, Science (journal), speech, walking}

Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind: Comparing Predictions

_{Michael Egnor
April 24, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is considered the most extreme state of brain injury, short of brain death. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, Arizona, brain death, cardiac arrest, death, doctors, heart, heartbeat, irreversibility, Jahi McMath, medicine, Nebraska, new york, organ farms, University of California San Francisco}

Are Transplant Doctors Causing Brain Death?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 30, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

4}

A new and highly problematic means of obtaining organs is pushing the boundaries of the “dead donor rule." Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 12, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, Apple, Boeing, brain death, China, cornea, hearts, human rights, kidneys, lethal injection, lungs, Nike, organ harvesting, prisoners, skin, South Carolina, United States}

China Credibly Accused of Organ-Harvesting Atrocity

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

A report presents shocking evidence of horrific human-rights abuses, including from witness testimony, analyses of public records, and reviewing of scholarly reports. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 1, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, brain death, Dartmouth College, dehydration, Jahi McMath, Michael Schiavo, neurology, Terri Schiavo, The New Yorker, video}

More Myths of Terri Schiavo

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 1, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

One myth is that the family somehow edited videos of Terri to make it appear falsely that she was conscious. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 15, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, brain death, California, death certificate, Jahi McMath, life, neuroscience, New Jersey, Wesley Smith}

Wesley Smith Visits Jahi McMath

_{David Klinghoffer
September 15, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

2}

“I nearly jumped out of my shoes,” Wesley reports. I think I would, too. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 10, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, brain death, California, Jahi McMath, New Jersey, Thaddeus Mason Pope}

Is Recovery from Brain Death Possible?

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 10, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

This case is a matter of tremendous importance. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 3, 2016

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Sociology
Tagged
, __tedited, brain death, death, discrimination, Health & Wellness, organ donors, personhood, redefinition}

Redefining Death as a "Sociological" Event

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 3, 2016

Bioethics, Medicine, Sociology

3}

An ongoing project in bioethics would open the door to profound evil. Read More ›