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By Austin Cline, About.com Guide to Atheism since 1998

Daily Poll: Where Should Death be Defined?

Monday October 2, 2006
There are three different definitions of death used in medicine: traditional heart-lung failure, whole-brain death, and higher-brain death. Which one we use affects how we treat people in hospitals, how we get organs for transplant, and even questions on abortion and stem-cell research.

 

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