"We are told she has no chance of survival but she has to remain in the ICU on
artificial life support until her heart gives up.
When it comes to specific means of
artificial life support, the English and Welsh bishops do not demand that artificial nutrition and hydration be always maintained, as Sgreccia did.
Initially, she was slated for death by the removal of her
artificial life support and feeding tubes predicated on the testimony of medical experts.
Further, the laws included express provisions for PVS as an end of life condition, and tubal nutrition and hydration as
artificial life supports for which a person may request termination.
Recently, advanced directives mandating removal of
artificial life support in terminal or hopeless situations following a neurological injury have become commonplace.
Is the patient receiving
artificial life support to improve his chances of survival, or merely to prolong the dying process?
9 as the opener for the Chicago Film Festival, would flatline commercially even with extensive
artificial life support.
The court explained that patients on
artificial life support already have the right to physician-assisted suicide.
Quill, the Second Circuit ruled that, given that New York law allows residents to refuse resuscitation and to forgo
artificial life support, denying residents physician assisted suicide violates the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection guarantee.
Unresponsive and experiencing little, if any, quality of life, she had previously prepared a living will and had emphatically stated that she wanted to die naturally, with no
artificial life support.