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By Michael Cook Catarina Sequeira A Portuguese woman who has been “brain dead” since December last year gave birth to a son late last month. Twenty-six-year-old Catarina Sequeira, a canoeing champion who had represented her country, suffered a serious asthma attack at...
Father had requested euthanasia By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Apoorva Mandhani reporting for Livelaw.in that a "brain dead" boy, whose father had asked the court to approve euthanasia, has been improving. The father was not...
By Dave Andrusko How many times have you read a story about an accident--typically a car accident--in which the victim is labeled “brain dead”? And how many times, as was the case recently with 22-year-old Sam Hemming after being in a drug-induced coma for 19 days,...
By Dave Andrusko In an abrupt, unexpected, and surprise decision, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday dissolved an injunction that prevented a local hospital from turning off 2-year-old Israel Stinson’s ventilator. The adorable little boy, whose brain-dead...
By Dave Andrusko This one is on me. Until a reader emailed me a link today, I did not know that the family of Jahi McMath cleared an important hurdle last month thanks to a First Appellate Court ruling that Nailah Winkfield can try to prove her now nearly 16-year-old...
By Dave Andrusko Lucy Thornton, writing for the British publication, The Mirror, explained today When the doctor declared: “Baby Lourenco has been born and he has cried,” cheers erupted from the nurses who had spent the past 107 days caring for the unborn tot. So, the...
By Dave Andrusko On Monday we posted a story about a glimmer of light in the horrific weekend in Kalamazoo, Michigan in which a Uber driver stands accused of murdering six people. A number of stories, which NRL News Today quoted accurately, said that 14-year-old...
By Dave Andrusko An important related note to the horrific murder spree in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in which an Uber driver is charged with gunning down six people. 14-year-old Abigail Kopf was shot Saturday in a Kalamazoo Cracker Barrel parking lot, pronounced brain dead...
By Dave Andrusko Hanna Lottritz was brain-dead, pure and simple, or so it seemed. The 20-year-old college student had consumed an incredible amount of alcohol in a competitive drinking match on July 27, 2015. From that point on, Hanna doesn’t remember the evening...
By Dave Andrusko The family of Marlise Machado Muñoz, the pregnant woman who collapsed from an apparent pulmonary embolism November 26 , filed suit in Tarrant County civil court Tuesday, requesting the court to issue an order requiring John Peter Smith Hospital...