On Dying More Than One Death
作者:
Douglas Shrader,
期刊:
Hastings Center Report
(WILEY Available online 1986)
卷期:
Volume 16,
issue 1
页码: 12-17
ISSN:0093-0334
年代: 1986
DOI:10.2307/3562464
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Death (with a capital D) can best be understood as a series of distinct but related deaths. For example, a pregnant woman was found to be brain‐dead but her vital functions were artificially sustained for nine weeks until her fetus could be delivered, after which the machines were removed and she died a second, conceptually distinct death. This procedure is probably justifiable, but any legislation or policy regarding such cases should be flexible and should require consen
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