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How Neuroscience Technology Is Changing Our Understanding of Brain Injury, Vegetative States and the Law
NORTH CAROLINA JOURNAL OF LAW & TECHNOLOGY Volume 20 Issue 3 Article 2 3-1-2019 How Neuroscience Technology is Changing Our Understanding of Brain Injury, Vegetative States and the Law Glenn R. Butterton Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/ncjolt Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Glenn R. Butterton, How Neuroscience Technology is Changing Our Understanding of Brain Injury, Vegetative States and the Law, 20 N.C. J.L. & TECH. 331 (2019). Available at: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/ncjolt/vol20/iss3/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Carolina Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology by an authorized editor of Carolina Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. NORTH CAROLINA JOURNAL OF LAW & TECHNOLOGY VOLUME 20, ISSUE 3: MARCH 2019 HOW NEUROSCIENCE TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF BRAIN INJURY, VEGETATIVE STATES AND THE LAW Glenn R. Butterton* The author examines clinical studies that use neuroscience technology to study patients in Vegetative States. The studies indicate that some of the patients are, in fact, conscious. The author suggests that this finding is a matter of considerable practical importance for the drafting and execution of end-of-life protocols such as Advance Directives and Living Wills. He recommends that statutes, and other guidance used by patients, caregivers, medical institutions, family members and others to draft and interpret such Directives and Wills, be revised or amended to take account of these results. I. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................332 II. -
Do We Have the Right to Die? Copyright 2015 by David Cloud ISBN 978-1-58318-200-0
Do We Have the Right to Die? Copyright 2015 by David Cloud ISBN 978-1-58318-200-0 Published by Way of Life Literature P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061 866-295-4143 (toll free) • [email protected] http://www.wayofife.org Canada: Bethel Baptist Church, 4212 Campbell St. N., London, Ont. N6P 1A6 519-652-2619 Printed in Canada by Bethel Baptist Print Ministry 2 Contents The Modern History of Euthanasia......................................... 5 Medical Science Is Not Infallible .........................................16 Man Has an Eternal Soul ......................................................34 It Might Be Possible for a Person in a Coma to Be Saved ...37 Our Responsibility Is to Care for Our Loved Ones, Not Kill Them .....................................................................................40 About Way of Life’s eBooks ................................................43 Powerful Publications for These Times ................................44 3 For additional books, ebooks, and videos that address this subject and many other, see the “Bookstore”, “Free eBooks” and “Free eVideos” tabs at: www.wayofife.org 4 Te Modern History of Euthanasia “Tou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13). Since the last half of the Twentieth Century we have witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of headlines focusing on the “right-to-die” or euthanasia issue. (Euthanasia means “good death.”) In 1968, a Harvard Medical School committee stated that “irreversible coma” is a criterion for death. In 1974, the Society for the Right to Die was founded in America. In 1976, in a landmark ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that 21-year- old Karen Quinlan could be removed from the respirator she had been on for two years. -
Bioethics an Introduction
Bioethics An Introduction Providing readers with the confidence needed to debate key issues in bioethics, this introductory text clearly explains bioethical theories and their philosophical foundations. Over 250 activities introduce topics for personal reflection, and discussion points encourage students to think for themselves and build their own arguments. High- lighting the potential pitfalls for those new to bioethics, each chapter features boxes providing factual information and outlining the philosophical background, along with detailed case studies that offer an insight into real-life examples of bioethical problems. Within-chapter essay questions and quizzes, along with end-of-chapter review questions, allow students to check their understanding and to broaden their thinking about the topics discussed. The accompanying podcasts by the author (two of whose podcasts on iTunesUTM have attracted over 3 million downloads) explain points that might be difficult for beginners. These, along with a range of extra resources for students and instructors, are available at www.cambridge.org/bioethics. Marianne Talbot has been Director of Studies in Philosophy at Oxford University’s Department For Continuing Education since 2001, where she is responsible for the university’s lifelong learning in philosophy. Talbot pioneered Oxford’s popular online short courses, and has more recently specialised in teaching ethics to scientists. She teaches ethics for Doctoral Training Centres in Oxford and in London, has trained the EPSRC itself in ethics and has written two online courses in bioethics for Oxford University. Bioethics An Introduction MARIANNE TALBOT University of Oxford cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sa˜o Paulo, Delhi, Mexico City Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521888332 # M. -
How Neuroscience Technology Is Changing Our Understanding of Brain Injury, Vegetative States and the Law
University of Miami Law School University of Miami School of Law Institutional Repository Articles Faculty and Deans 2019 How Neuroscience Technology Is Changing Our Understanding of Brain Injury, Vegetative States and the Law Glenn R. Butterton Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.miami.edu/fac_articles Part of the Estates and Trusts Commons, and the Medical Jurisprudence Commons NORTH CAROLINA JOURNAL OF LAw & TECHNOLOGY VOLuME 20, ISSUE 3: MARCH 2019 How NEUROSCIENCE TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF BRAIN INJURY, VEGETATIVE STATES AND THE LAW Glenn R. Butterton* The author examines clinical studies that use neuroscience technology to study patients in Vegetative States. The studies indicate that some of the patients are, in fact, conscious. The author suggests that this finding is a matter of considerable practical importance for the drafting and execution of end-of-life protocols such as Advance Directives and Living Wills. He recommends that statutes, and other guidance used by patients, caregivers, medical institutions,family members and others to draft and interpretsuch Directives and Wills, be revised or amended to take account of these results. I. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................ 332 II. BACKGROUND ........................................................................ 335 A . The Phenomenon ........................................................... 335 B . Causal F actors.............................................................. 337 C. -
1 Submission to the Senate Euthanasia Inquiry Bill Muehlenberg Spokesman, Family Council of Victoria August 2014 the Family Coun
Submission to the Senate Euthanasia Inquiry Bill Muehlenberg Spokesman, Family Council of Victoria August 2014 The Family Council of Victoria strongly disapproves of any move to legalise euthanasia, and strongly rejects the Bill put forward by the Greens. Legalised euthanasia is problematic for a number of reasons. The following document spells out these concerns in detail in a fully-referenced paper. The Case Against Legalised Euthanasia The case against legalised euthanasia needs to be spelled out in detail. This is especially urgent since there seems to be so much moral and intellectual fuzziness concerning this debate. Therefore I here offer ten major reasons why no civilised society should move in this direction. However, first a word about terminology. Terminology and definitions In this important debate, it is imperative that we clearly define our terms before proceeding. This is vital because so much misleading language is being used in this debate, and so many euphemisms are being tossed around. Indeed, emotive imagery and deceptive language are clouding what this issue is really about. As J. Daryl Charles puts it, “Euthanasia today depends on euphemisms. Orwellianisms such as ‘exit preference’, ‘death with dignity’, and a ‘right to die’ are absolutely critical to its cultural legitimation. Empowered by sentiment, euthanasia rhetoric is dependent on images and symbols.”1 For the purposes of this book, euthanasia is simply about one thing. It is not about halting futile treatment. Nor is it about the alleviation of suffering (this is known as palliative care). Euthanasia is an act that directly and intentionally causes a person’s death.