In the hospital, many people are diagnosed as, being brain dead. Some people are put on life support, even though they are legally dead, court cases are fought, won and lost. All so we can put a legally dead person on life support. Is it really worth, the time and money to keep a dead patient alive. Put yourself in the doctor’s position, they have a patient whose heart is working but their brain is completely dead and non-functioning. You diagnosed them with being brain dead and the family doesn’t want to believe it, because it’s their baby girl or baby boy. They see the heart still operating properly so they see them as alive just without the brain. Your call is to take them off life-support, but the family disagrees with you and has them kept on life support. They
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In reality brain dead patients should not be kept on life support, although it seems like they are alive and functioning without the brain, it is not improving them and they shouldn’t be kept on life support.
Therefore within opinion, one believes that they should not be kept on life support, when they’re brain dead. First of all, what does brain-dead even mean, as it is defined “complete cessation of brain function as evidenced by absence of brain-wave activity on an electroencephalogram: sometimes used as a legal definition of death” (Brain 1). So, if it is used as a legal definition, why do people keep them on life support? Well, people are put on life support to keep the heart beating, because it does not need the brain to keep beating, only oxygen. Therefore they are put on life support to feed them and breathe for them because without life support or a brain the lungs cannot operate. Some people believe as long as the heart is beating, they’re still alive. However without brain activity, they will never wake up and be on life support forever, or until their heart gives out. This plan costs thousands upon thousands of dollars to keep someone, legally dead on life support. The money that is
In reality brain dead patients should not be kept on life support, although it seems like they are alive and functioning without the brain, it is not improving them and they shouldn’t be kept on life support.
Therefore within opinion, one believes that they should not be kept on life support, when they’re brain dead. First of all, what does brain-dead even mean, as it is defined “complete cessation of brain function as evidenced by absence of brain-wave activity on an electroencephalogram: sometimes used as a legal definition of death” (Brain 1). So, if it is used as a legal definition, why do people keep them on life support? Well, people are put on life support to keep the heart beating, because it does not need the brain to keep beating, only oxygen. Therefore they are put on life support to feed them and breathe for them because without life support or a brain the lungs cannot operate. Some people believe as long as the heart is beating, they’re still alive. However without brain activity, they will never wake up and be on life support forever, or until their heart gives out. This plan costs thousands upon thousands of dollars to keep someone, legally dead on life support. The money that is