Read an Oct. 3, 2008, article in the online magazine Slate about medical ethics and end-of-life issues in the context of organ transplants.

See an Oct. 9, 2009, report from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly that explores end-of-life issues. 

Read a Feb. 3, 2010, New York Times article that discusses the results of the new brain imaging study.

Read a Feb. 16, 2010, column by By Arri Eisen at ReligionDispatches.org about the religious element to end-of-life issues.

Read a Feb. 27, 2010, article from Kaiser Health News about a Catholic directive on end-of-life issues.

Read a March 3, 2010, story by Catholic News Service about a medical study that showed conscious brain activity in some people assumed to be in vegetative states.

In October 2009, Nature magazine published an editorial calling for a “realistic definition of life’s end” in order to facilitate the harvesting and donation of organs, among other things. The editorial sums up the current laws and policies and the state of the debate.

Research reported in the February 2010 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine indicates that some individuals with brain damage previously thought to prevent thought, consciousness and communication in fact possess previously unsuspected levels of awareness. Even if aided by advanced technology, they have the ability to answer questions accurately. Experts caution that this dealt with a small […]

In November 2010, the Rabbinical Council of America, the central body of Modern Orthodox rabbis in the U.S., circulated a detailed report raising questions as to whether the organization’s longstanding acceptance of brain stem death as a definition of death comported with Jewish law. A majority of Jewish legal scholars cited said death was defined by the […]