The Mystery of Consciousness: New Study Challenges ‘Brain-Death’ Narrative
COMMENTARY: Contemporary Western cultures insist consciousness resides exclusively in our brains, but an abundance of recent scientific research indicates otherwise.
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Opinion: Catholics Should Not Be ‘Brain Death’ Organ Donors
COMMENTARY: The April 11 statement by The National Catholic Bioethics Center affirms that ‘a partial brain death standard can never be acceptable to Catholics.’
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.
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.
Dobbs Offers Lessons for the Brain Death Debate
COMMENTARY: Medical knowledge advances and our laws must change accordingly.
Brain Death: What Catholics Need to Know
COMMENTARY: People of good will in and out of the medical community should support medical research seeking innovative, morally uncontentious ways to replace failing organs.
Proposed Change to Brain Death Laws Draws Criticism from Some Doctors, Ethicists
Catholic doctors and ethicists today largely echo St. John Paul II in stating that brain death, when properly diagnosed, is not a “kind” of death; it is simply death, period.
What Every Catholic Should Know About Brain Death
An estimated 42 people are declared brain dead throughout the U.S. every day.
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.
The ‘Miracle Boy’ and Problems With the Brain-Death Diagnosis
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: The case of Trenton McKinley has renewed discussion and doubts about whether brain death constitutes actual death.
