A Personal Comment: Whole Brain Death versus Cortical Death

Whole-brain death reconsidered.

The author, a philosopher, suggests that the concept of death should be left as it is 'in its present indeterminate state', and that we ought to reject attempts to define death in terms of whole-brain death or any other type of brain death, including cerebral death and 'irreversible coma'. Instead of 'fiddling with the definition of death' clear rules should be established specifying 'what can ...

brain death

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Death, Brain Death, and the Death of Death: Death as a Concept in Continuing Evolution

"Brain death" is not death.

Comment: Is international consensus on brain death achievable?