Talk:Life support

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Life support article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find medical sources: Source guidelines · PubMed · Cochrane · DOAJ · Gale · OpenMD · ScienceDirect · Springer · Trip · Wiley · TWL

The subject of this article is controversial and content may be in dispute. When updating the article, be bold, but not reckless. Feel free to try to improve the article, but don't take it personally if your changes are reversed; instead, come here to the talk page to discuss them. Content must be written from a neutral point of view. Include citations when adding content and consider tagging or removing unsourced information.

Biology Mid‑importance

	Biology portal Life support is part of the WikiProject Biology, an effort to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to biology on Wikipedia. Leave messages on the WikiProject talk page.BiologyWikipedia:WikiProject BiologyTemplate:WikiProject BiologyBiology articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Sociology Low‑importance

	Society portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sociology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of sociology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SociologyWikipedia:WikiProject SociologyTemplate:WikiProject Sociologysociology articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Psychology Low‑importance

	Psychology portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Psychology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Psychology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PsychologyWikipedia:WikiProject PsychologyTemplate:WikiProject Psychologypsychology articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Medicine Mid‑importance

	Medicine portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Medicine, which recommends that medicine-related articles follow the Manual of Style for medicine-related articles and that biomedical information in any article use high-quality medical sources. Please visit the project page for details or ask questions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine.MedicineWikipedia:WikiProject MedicineTemplate:WikiProject Medicinemedicine articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

This article was nominated for deletion on 9 May 2008. The result of the discussion was keep.

Ethics

Added header and removed the 'others think that withdrawing life support is unethical' line. I think that to include this would require an expanding paragraph.(otherwise you might as well add 'and others think it neuther ethical nor unethical' or somesuch.) This is a big topic and would be more appropriate as part of the medical ethics page-and frankly I would support moving the whole thing there. Any thoughts?Felix-felix 15:52, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete entire page

I propose deleting the whole thing. Everything on this page is covered by basic life support, and all it has is a disproportionately large paragraph on the catholic church's objection to the practice. It could be removed, or added as a paragraph somewhere else.--rakkar (talk) 13:27, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

yes this page should be deleted —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.184.190.195 (talk) 13:31, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No this page should not be deleted. For many people the concept of what is life support is confusing and a good quality page on this issue would make it quite useful. I will do some work on this page to improve the quality. .--rhilsden (talk) 14:50, 18 Nov 2008 (UTC)