ventilator | The Broadview

Tragedies spark end-of-life debate

February 14, 2014

Tatiana Gutierrez Editor-in-Chief A local family’s fight to keep its 13-year-old daughter on a ventilator after being declared brain dead coupled with a pregnant Texas woman’s family’s struggle to remove her from a ventilator have caused renewed debate over the definition of end of life and...

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