Catholic doctors and ethicists today largely echo St. John Paul II in stating that brain death, when properly diagnosed, is not a “kind” of death; it is simply death, period. Brain death, also called ...
Walter J. Rudda Jr., 72, of the Miners Mills section of Wilkes-Barre, died Monday afternoon, Feb. 1, 2010, at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, Plains Township, surrounded by his family. Born ...