title: Life-sustaining treatments and vegetative state: scientific advances and ethical dilemmas.
authors.lastname: Pope John Paul II
mesh_terms: D002410:Catholicism; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D006801:Humans; D008020:Life Support Care / Q000941:ethics*; D028701:Patient Rights / Q000941:ethics; D018458:Persistent Vegetative State; D011788:Quality of Life; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D026712:Value of Life; D028761:Withholding Treatment / Q000941:ethics