Dr. Ken Berger The Controversy Behind Life Support?

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The Controversy Behind Life Support
The decision to be able to prolong life has been one of the most controversial topic for years now. Many people believe that life support isn’t benefiting the person just only making the person live longer and others believe that it’s a chance the patients can come off life support breathing on their own which there has been many cases where patients have awakened from life support. In this exploratory essay I will talk about the 3 article that embodied their opinion about life support. In the first article Berger position on the issue is that he is against Dying patients being kept on life support because he believes once the person is critically ill which some call it brain dead there’s no coming back from …show more content…

Ken Berger believes that Life Support for elderly patient isn’t benefiting them and is actually causing more harm to them. According to the “Dying on life support: is it fair? Article The Author Dr. Berger states in most cases when the end is near should doctors prolong life artificially? Dr. Berger the medical doctor at the Bellevue Hospital in New York City states how patients that are on life support in the intensive care unit are not showing signs of likelihood of surviving. A very well-known patients of Dr. Berger who is severely ill and he isn’t showing any signs of getting better but actually is showing signs of his body getting ill (Leung n.p). By law Dr. Berger must keep him alive which, he isn’t very pleased about it because he finds it very useful for the staff and also for the …show more content…

But the decision isn’t necessarily based on if the doctors want to do so, it’s the law the doctors have to follow if it was up to Keller he wouldn’t put elderly patients on life support. The health care providers fear legal ramifications if they don’t do everything in their power to prolong life. Bill Keller says “I have been criticized by the Catholic Church in the name of life” (Moran n.p) for centuries now the Catholic Church has been on the side that is against prolonging the process of dying. In 1957, Pope Pius XII wrote: “it is unnatural to prevent death in instances where there is no hope of recovery when nature is calling for death, there is no question that one can remove the life support system.” Even with this being said Moran can’t necessarily do anything about it because it’s his job and he has to do what he is told or legal action will be taken. Even though Moran is against prolonging life even when he had to encounter as a child losing his father at a young age he still knew that prolonging life is

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