Sentences with phrase «profound cognitive disability»

It permits us to dehydrate people to death based on their once having made vague statements about not wanting to live with profound cognitive disability, and it is the ideological basis for denying wanted medical treatment that sustains life.

Whatever is self - aware or able to value its own life (for example) is designated as a «person,» even if it is an animal, while people lacking these attributes are denigrated as human «non-persons» — an invidious category that includes all of the unborn, as well as (for many bioethics practitioners) infants and those with profound cognitive disabilities.

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The disease is characterized by profound fatigue and disability lasting for at least 6 mo, episodes of cognitive dysfunction, sleep disturbance, autonomic abnormalities, chronic or intermittent pain syndromes, microbiome abnormalities (1), cerebral cytokine dysregulation (2), natural killer cell dysfunction (3), and other symptoms that are made worse by exertion of any kind (4).

Also, they may suffer profound cognitive problems or, conversely, no cognitive problems at all other than being «locked - in» by their disability.

Consequences can be profound in the areas of social, emotional, and cognitive impairment; adoption of high - risk behaviors; disease, disability, and social problems, and early death.