Japan grapples with definition of death by brain death

[Definition and determination of brain death].

brain death

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More fiddling with the definition of death?

Stanley contends that G.R. Gillett, in the last paragraph of an otherwise excellent article, "Why let people die?" (Journal of Medical Ethics 1986 Jun; 12(2): 83-86), is "fiddling about" with the definition of death when he argues that the patient in a persistent vegetative state is, in an ethical sense, no longer alive as a person; that what remains is a body in which the former patient has no...

"Brain death" is not death.

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