Young woman declared ‘brain dead’ dies of starvation, neglect
After declaring her 'brain dead,' the hospital refused to feed Amber or provide basic hygiene to the point that her sister had to remove maggots from her hair.
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Heidi Klessig, M.D.
Hospital wants to pull the plug on inhumanely neglected 23-year-old woman who is not brain dead
Montefiore Hospital in Brooklyn is neglecting Amber Ebanks, but experts who have seen the student say her body is functioning and that she could improve with proper treatment.
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Was football player Terrance Howard really dead? His parents didn’t think so.
The parents of North Carolina Central University football player Terrance Howard claimed that Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center wanted to kill their son for his organs, and accused doctors of snickering and laughing while refusing to help him.
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US lawmakers must prevent complicity in China’s forced harvesting of political prisoners’ organs
Chinese prisoners are being dissected to death and sold for parts to the highest bidder. Everyone must speak out against this tremendous atrocity. We need legislation now to end US complicity in the murder of these helpless prisoners of conscience.
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Recently revised ‘brain death’ guidelines are not backed by scientific evidence
It’s time to scrap conjectured 'brain death' guidelines and return to the traditional definition of death: cessation of cardiopulmonary function.
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Bioethics group admits most people declared ‘brain dead’ actually have brain function
The National Catholic Bioethics Center, a longtime supporter of ‘brain death,’ finally admitted that many so-called ‘brain dead’ people still have neuroendocrine function, though its defense of vulnerable patients doesn’t go nearly far enough.
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‘Brain death’ diagnosis devalues human life, makes us vulnerable to unethical treatment
The physician-patient relationship has suffered because doctors are being trained to see people with severe brain injuries as 'good as dead,' rather than valuing their humanity.
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Doctors are using the controversial ‘brain dead’ diagnosis to treat people like lab rats
'Brain death' survivors prove that the diagnosis can be made in error, and that using these people for medical experimentation on this basis is ethically unjustified.
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‘Brain death’ is a fallacy used to prop up the organ harvesting industry
The concept of ‘brain death’ is factually baseless, but powerful medical organizations like the American Academy of Neurology are imposing it on America, threatening the lives of brain-injured people.
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Why you should think twice about signing up to donate your organs
Using the controversial NRP-cDCD method, doctors are able to harvest patients’ organs after removing life support and while the patient is considered ‘brain-dead,’ despite the potential for cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
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