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EPLD - European Medical Movement for the Right of Life - Europäische Ärztevereinigung Lebensrecht - Brain death

Proposals / declaration

of German / European prolife-physicians regarding the concept of brain-death

                                                 Welcome on the website of EPLD-medical pro-life association!

Dear visitor, dear medical colleague,

in preparation of our partecipation at the brain-death conference 19-2-2009 in Rome we publish our proposals:

 
A) Generally:
o  The brain death is not the death of the whole man
o  The as brain-dead declared patient is a dying one and consequently allways still a human being and person,
o  everybody has the right at a dying in dignity and at his personal death.
o  First of all physicians have to respect life and welfare of their patient.(“Nihil nocere”)

B) Medical aspects:
o  1. EPLD-doctors refuse the diagnostics of brain death, because unnecessary and nocive (apnoe-test), at lean
o  2. must be follwed a accurate and standardized medical diagnostics of brain death Hirntoddiagnostik
o  No prelevation of organs from patients with cardiac arrest (NHBD) and from anenzephalic (congenital bad malformation of          brain)

C) Aspects of pro-life work:
o  Integration of all forces, which do not aggree with the concept of brain death as total death,
o  Medical facts and serious sources have to be the basis of each pro-life work.


D) Church & religion, spiritual aspects:
o  No acceptance of the today concept of brain death and to the prelevation of organs at beating heart                                        (except living organ donation)
o  Spiritual care of dying, brain death patients until their definitive death.
o  The expression „ex cadavere“ formed in 2008 by Pope Benedikt XVI. has to be totally clear and may not allow different         interpretation
o  The definition of death has to be defined by physicians, theologists and philosophers.

                                                     Adressees of this declaration:
-  medical fellowship, scientists, partecipioents of the Rome conference, Patients organisations
-  prolife-organiosations and prolife doctors in Germany and Europe,
-  the church, the Holy Father, ..
 

Best wishes & greetings from Munich in Germany

Dr. Gero Winkelmann, Director of EPLD

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