Holding the Line on Life and Brain Death: Part II

Holding the Line on Life and Brain Death: Part II

Life and death are binary and absolute. There is neither a third option nor a sliding scale.

Why “Brain Death” is Not the True Death of the Human Person

(Michael Vacca / Catholic Journal) – “Brain death,” or death by neurological criteria is a legal fiction that is refuted by sound medicine, philosophy, and theology. As I will substantiate in this paper and I substantiated in my previous paper in the Linacre Quarterly on the subject (Vacca, Michael Arthur, 2023, “The Moral Illicitness of Relying Solely on Neurological Criteria for the Determination of Death: A Catholic Response to ‘Brain Death.’…