Abstract

New Bioethical Aspects of Ending of Life in Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome/Vegetative State Patients

Francesco Arcuri, Maria Daniela Cortese and Giuliano Dolce

The active abandonment of patients in Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome/Vegetative State (UWS/VS) [1] is a topic that has been widely discussed in recent decades by individual authors advocating directly opposite points of view.