Considerations on the Scientific and Ethical Problems Related to Vegetative State

Abstract

"At the end of four days of concentrated study and debate, during the International Congress `Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State. Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas' (Rome 17-20 March 2004), after we heard the contributions of some of the most prominent scholars and researchers in the field from the perspective of science, anthropology and ethics, and after the deeply inspiring words of the Holy Father John Paul II to the Congress participants, the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations (FIAMC) intends to present the following statement to the general public."