PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Fetus, Brain Death
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Ethics: moral ought/should and reasoning, how we ought to behave. Some argue that it should have its own discipline. Doctors did treatment in dax"s best interests at the time justified outcome overwrites the amount of pain dax suffered. A. never know for sure about having a positive outcome. Infants born literally without a brain are never going to be conscious. Will always be unconscious and if connected to ventilators, could live a long life. Will die without pain because of no sensory organs. After natural death, cannot use organs (moral implications) Claim: child cannot continue to have a normal existence. Parents will suffer and need to think about their families. Problem with killing infants for organ harvest. Based on the definition of our determination, can override law and determine value of life. Traditional definition of death: when the heart and lung stops. Legal (and current) definition of death (because of new technology): whole brain death.