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A major challenge for physicians tasked with the medical decision-making of babies born very premature or severely disabled with neurological damage and poor quality of life for the future presents another side to the bioethics topic of child euthanasia. [19] A 2017 study looked into the end-of-life decisions made by neonatologists in Argentina ...
Rules allowing doctor-assisted death for children of all ages were adopted by the nation in 2014.
Parents wish to keep a child on life support. Spiro Nikolouzos case: United States Texas: 2005 A family wishes to keep life support for a man in a persistent vegetative state. David Vetter: United States Texas: 1984 A boy dies at age 12 after living a lifetime with highly unusual medical care in a sterile environment. Jahi McMath case: United ...
Note: This article has been updated to accurately reflect details of Pothoven's euthanasia request. A 17-year-old Dutch girl who sought euthanasia but was rejected by the government was allowed to ...
In Colombia, Martha Sepúlveda Campos will be the first person to die by euthanasia in the country without being terminally ill. She has ALS. This woman could have lived years with her terminal ...
Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug (1 June 1948 – 18 May 2015), was an Indian nurse who was at the centre of attention in a court case on euthanasia after spending over 41 years in a vegetative state as a result of a sexual assault.
Jahi McMath was a thirteen-year-old girl who was declared brain dead in California following surgery in 2013. This led to a bioethical debate engendered by her family's rejection of the medicolegal findings of death in the case, and their efforts to maintain her body using mechanical ventilation and other measures.
The world's oldest real-life "Benjamin Button" is barely older than a teenager, but he has the body of a 160-year-old. Rupesh Kumar, 21, lives in India and weighs under 45 pounds, Express reports ...