Tag: cardiac arrest

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 5, 2025

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

Killing for Organs — Who Could Possibly Object?

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 5, 2025

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine

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

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 26, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, brain function, cardiac arrest, clinical death, Closer to Truth, consciousness, death, doctors, Lord Kelvin, Lucid Dying, near-death experiences, Nobel Prize, Psyche, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Sam Parnia, skepticism, soul}

Soul Survives Death? ER Doc Faces Skepticism

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 26, 2024

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

6}

In discussion with Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Dr. Sam Parnia stuck to his clearly defined evidence, avoiding religious digressions. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 25, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain cells, cardiac arrest, consciousness, dogmatism, Johns Hopkins University, Lucid Dying, mind, near-death experiences, neurology, New York University, psychiatry, resuscitation, Sam Parnia, Sean Carroll}

Heart Attack Doctor: Science Shows Death Is Not the End

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 25, 2024

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

Sam Parnia began by wondering how brain cells can give rise to thoughts. He came to see that the message “from science” was not what he had been led to expect. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 10, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, atheism, blindness, brain activity, cardiac arrest, consciousness, death, heart, materialism, materialists, mind, neuroscience, Salon, Twitter, University of Montreal, Wesley Smith}

Neuroscientist: Near-Death Experiences Are “Utterly Incompatible” with Materialism

_{David Klinghoffer
November 10, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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"NDE studies suggest that after physical death, mind and consciousness may continue in a transcendent level of reality." Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 30, 2022

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

Are Transplant Doctors Causing Brain Death?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 30, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

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