Using The Word LIFE, to be an alive human being

FreeRepublic ^ | 6/11/2003 | Marvin Galloway

[MHGinTN]

This essay is the first in a series being offered to Catholic Diocese newsletters for lay readers, such as the Life Matters periodical of the Rockford Diocese, Rockford, Illinois.

As usual with these pro-life letters and essays, any pro-lifer wishing to pass them along to their Church for use is welcome to do so; the author's only request is that the essay be posted in entirety and any excerpts be quoted fully and accurately.

[MHGinTN]

ping-a-ling-a-ling

[facedown]

BTTT

[nickcarraway]

BUMP

[firewalk]

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[shaggy eel]

,,, BTTT [bookmarked]

[MHGinTN]

ping-a-ling

[LiteKeeper]

SITREP

[palmer]

If it is determined--through a series of stimuli and non-responses--that the organs are not functioning via feedback loop with the most primitive brain, the integrated whole is deemed lost, and organ harvesting is authorized.

Thanks for the ping MHG. Medicine can revive people even after the clinical death described above if the blood supply to the brain has not been cut off for too long. This is an moral use of science even if that person is not able to resume a completely normal life. We value human life regardless of physical or mental capabilities.

[ApesForEvolution]

Thanks MHG. Very much appreciate this factual perspective.

[MHGinTN]

Actually, palmer, once a vegitative state is reached or irreversible coma, medical science cannot revive the patient ... only God can at that point (though some medical people have claimed to have revived someone at that level of degredation in higher brain functioning ... perhaps hocndoc can correct me here). What the vegitative state shows however is that the integrated whole is still functioning. When the death protocol is concluded, it is determeined whether the 'feedback loop' is still working, if not, the parient is dead.

[MHGinTN]

parient = patient

[MHGinTN]

Ping-ka-ching

[syriacus]

Thanks for the ping, MHGinTN.

More food for thought. (bookmarked)

[cpforlife.org]

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[MHGinTN]

Ping

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Thanks!

[victim soul]

thanks and ping!

[MHGinTN]

Ping

[Hidgy]

Someone on this forum please tell me if parents of late-term abortion babies give their dead child a funeral. I am prepared to be shocked and haunted at the answer. Please reply to me.