What are the patients' rights when their brain is dead?

Should they be kept on life support?

hopefully that person thought ahead and filled out a living will, in that will instructions are given for this sort of dilema, the patient basically has no rights, therefore, the living will, usually if there is no will in place, a family member will decide for this person.

When the brain is dead the person is dead. No reason to keep life support on at all because without the brain the person's whole body will shut down and not work anymore.

If they are Brain Dead NO. They have already left this world and the machine is making them breath. Their soul is in a better place.

Are you asking from a legal standpoint or moral?

Morally, I think that we should respect what their last wishes would be. I would never want to live in a vegitative state, or be a burden to my family and friends. So for me pull the plug!

Legally, I think that the next of kin should have the burden of making the decision unless a living will exsists.
I don't think parents should be able to over ride what a spouse or even adult child has decided.

SOME times they sign papers in their right mind. THEn things go wrong. IF they did not sign papers the the family have the rights. BUT as long as they are alive patients they have rights.

Patient Rights are for the living...hopefully, they will be "freed" from their earthly body by those that love them and ask that the Doctors discontinue life support. Every state has it's own set of rules re: this situation. Hospitals and Doctors offices can give you this information free of charge.....then let your heart do the rest, because in the end, you have to look yourself in the mirror and know you did the right thing. God bless.

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