By Michael Cook The United Kingdom is once again debating brain death. In recent years there have been several high-profile disputes between parents who want to keep their child alive and the National Health Service. Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans, Pippa Knight , and are the best-known names. At the centre of the latest heart-rending fight …
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By Paul Smeaton ANN ARBOR, Michigan, October 16, 2019 – Bobby Reyes, a 14-year-old boy from Michigan who doctors declared “brain dead,” died yesterday after a judge dismissed his family’s court case asking he be given more time. The University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital removed his ventilator just hours later. The case was …
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By Michael Cook A Portuguese woman who has been “brain dead” since December last year gave birth to a son late last month. Twenty-six-year-old Catarina Sequeira, a canoeing champion who had represented her country, suffered a serious asthma attack at home on December 26 when she was 19 weeks pregnant. For 56 days a ventilator …
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By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The case concerning a woman who has been declared brain dead by a Brampton hospital is heading to the court of appeal. The issue at hand is the definition of brain death. Taquisha McKitty (27) of Brampton Ontario, was declared brain dead on September 20, 2017, …
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Father had requested euthanasia By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Apoorva Mandhani reporting for Livelaw.in that a “brain dead” boy, whose father had asked the court to approve euthanasia, has been improving. The father was not asking for a lethal injection but rather the withdrawal of basic care. The father recently “approached …
Continue reading "‘Brain Dead’ child in India improves after receiving specialized therapy"By Nancy Valko As a mother who has lost two beloved daughters, my heart goes out to Jahi McMath’s mother Nailah Winkfield after the recent loss of her daughter after an almost 5 year battle to save her and have California rescind her death certificate after doctors concluded that Jahi was “brain dead.” Jahi McMath …
Continue reading "A Legacy for Jahi McMath"By Dave Andrusko Jahi McMath, the teenager at the heart of a determined and courageous fight waged by her parents against a brain-death diagnosis , passed away June 22 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., “of bleeding due to liver failure and a brain injury caused by lack of oxygen,” according …
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By Dave Andrusko On May 23, NRL News Today wrote about two New Jersey families who were fighting to keep their sons on life-support, cases which bore a striking resemblance to Alfie Evans. Both were gamely fighting against Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia [CHOP] which was determined to take the boys on their ventilators on the …
Continue reading "New Jersey boy whose family had fought to keep him on life-support dies on Saturday"By Dave Andrusko How many times have you read a story about an accident–typically a car accident–in which the victim is labeled “brain dead”? And how many times, as was the case recently with 22-year-old Sam Hemming after being in a drug-induced coma for 19 days, doctors tell her family there is “no hope of …
Continue reading "About to “pull the plug,” shocked doctors stop when woman suddenly wiggles her big toe"By Dave Andrusko In an abrupt, unexpected, and surprise decision, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday dissolved an injunction that prevented a local hospital from turning off 2-year-old Israel Stinson’s ventilator. The adorable little boy, whose brain-dead diagnosis was fought on two continents by his parents, died shortly afterwards. “They are devastated. I think …
Continue reading "Little Israel Stinson dies after unexpectedly being removed from ventilator"By Dave Andrusko This one is on me. Until a reader emailed me a link today, I did not know that the family of Jahi McMath cleared an important hurdle last month thanks to a First Appellate Court ruling that Nailah Winkfield can try to prove her now nearly 16-year-old daughter is alive. As odd …
Continue reading "Jahi McMath’s mother can attempt to prove she is alive, California court rules"By Dave Andrusko Few topics intrigue me more than why “trends” develop, or, better put, why “givens” that have gone essentially unchallenged suddenly begin to lose their authority. We’ve written about many of them at NRL News Today, including the ever-so-gradual-acknowledgement found in corners of the Media Establishment that aborting a child who has been …
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