Terri Schiavo
Making an idol of brain-injured patients
By John J. Paris and Kevin Wildes — February 10, 2020
(RNS) — A failure to appreciate the historical context of the ‘sanctity of life’ has led some to distort its meaning.
Latest research on vegetative state calls for new civil rights movement
By Charles C. Camosy — January 22, 2020
(RNS) — In the 15 years since Terri Schiavo died, changes in medical research and technology give us reason to totally rethink fundamental questions about patients thought to be 'vegetative.'
Family, ethics, medicine and law collide in Jahi McMath’s life — or death
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 3, 2014
(RNS) A coroner has issued a death certificate for brain dead Jahi McMath, 13. But her mother says she lives and shows "improvement." Ethicists examine the definition of death and the challenges of hope.
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