Loss of faith in brain death: Catholic controversy over the determination of death by neurological criteria

Jones, David F.

doi:10.1258/ce.2012.012m07

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“…are irreconcilable with some fundamental cultural values and religious beliefs. 5,18,26,27 Failing to respect and accommodate these diverse values and beliefs can have a profound negative impact on surviving parents and family members. 6,18,25,27 Although routine integration of organ donation can conflict with religious beliefs, some commentators believe that religious beliefs should not ''be allowed to stonewall a secular approach'' to the end-of-life care of children in a multicultural society.…”

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RETRACTED: Routine parental request of organ donation in end-of-life care of children in the United Kingdom: Unresolved medical, legal, cultural and religious challenges

Rady

2019

Med Leg J

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The opt-out system (or presumed consent) for end-of-life organ donation is being widely adopted in the United Kingdom. Since presumed consent for organ donation applies only to adults, commentators have recommended the implementation of routine parental request and integration of organ donation in the end-of-life care of children to increase the donor pool and the supply of transplantable organs. The empirical data for this recommendation originated from a survey of parents of deceased children with severe congenital and acquired brain injuries. The demographics of the surveyed parents were not representative of the diverse ethnic and religious affiliations of British society. Here, it is argued that there are unresolved medical, legal, cultural and religious challenges to the routine integration of end-of-life organ donation that can result in harmful consequences for children and parents. To address these challenges: (1) paediatric practice guidelines should be updated to incorporate new advances in the diagnosis and the treatment of severe brain injuries to eliminate potential clinical errors from premature treatment discontinuation and/or incorrect diagnosis of brain(stem) death and (2) a broad societal debate on the legal, cultural and religious consequences of routine integration of end-of-life organ donation in children.

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Section: Cultural and Religious Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

RETRACTED: Routine parental request of organ donation in end-of-life care of children in the United Kingdom: Unresolved medical, legal, cultural and religious challenges

Rady

2019

Med Leg J

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“…9The same view is expressed by David Jones [20, p. 138], whose article presents a brief but useful summary of some of the key issues I explore here.…”

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Death, unity, and the brain

Oderberg

2019

Theor Med Bioeth

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The dead donor rule holds that removing organs from living human beings without their consent is wrongful killing. The rule still prevails in most countries, and I assume it without argument in order to pose the question: is it possible to have a metaphysically correct, clinically relevant analysis of human death that makes organ donation ethically permissible? I argue that the two dominant criteria of death—brain death and circulatory death—are both empirically and metaphysically inadequate as definitions of human death and therefore hold no epistemic value in themselves. I first set out a neo-Aristotelian theory of death as separation of soul (understood as organising principle) and body, which is then fleshed out as loss of organismic integrity. The brain and circulatory criteria are shown to have severe weaknesses as physiological manifestations of loss of integrity. Given the mismatch between what death is, metaphysically speaking, and the dominant criteria accepted by clinicians and philosophers, it turns out that only actual bodily decomposition is a sure sign of death. In this I differ from Alan Shewmon, whose important work I discuss in detail.

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“…The most prominent proponent of this view is D. Alan Shewmon (Shewmon, 1997(Shewmon, , 1998a(Shewmon, , 1998b(Shewmon, , 2001(Shewmon, , 2010 others are e.g. Josef Seifert (1993), Nicanor Austriaco (2003), John Finnis (2011), David Albert Jones (2012) and Doyen Nguyen (2016Nguyen ( , 2017Nguyen ( , 2018aNguyen ( , 2018bNguyen ( , 2019. The fourth position specifies that death occurs with brain stem death (BSD).…”

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Traditional Cardiopulmonary Criterion of Death is the Only Valid Criterion of Human Death

Volek

2021

SetF

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In recent time the critique of the whole brain death as the criterion of human death, that was introduced in 1968, has been growing. The paper aims to show in systematically that there are good reasons based on empirical findings combined with Thomistic Christian anthropology to accept the traditional cardiopulmonary criterion as the criterion of human death. This will be shown through a systematic critique of other criteria of death: whole brain death, higher brain death, brain stem death, and controlled cardiac/circulatory death. The traditional cardiopulmonary criterion of death provides the opportunity to maintain the dead donor rule for organ transplantation. This also affirms the respect for human life required by the ethics of the sanctity of human life. The paper further provides a justification of dead donor rule. The paper proposes 35 minutes period after cardiac arrest to declare the patient dead, since at that time there is no possibility to autoresuscitate the heart.

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Loss of faith in brain death: Catholic controversy over the determination of death by neurological criteria

Cited by 22 publications

References 31 publications

RETRACTED: Routine parental request of organ donation in end-of-life care of children in the United Kingdom: Unresolved medical, legal, cultural and religious challenges

RETRACTED: Routine parental request of organ donation in end-of-life care of children in the United Kingdom: Unresolved medical, legal, cultural and religious challenges

Death, unity, and the brain

Traditional Cardiopulmonary Criterion of Death is the Only Valid Criterion of Human Death

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