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Feb 12, 2024

Debate simmers over when doctors should declare brain death

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, ethics, law, neuroscience

Benjamin Franklin famously wrote: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” While that may still be true, there’s a controversy simmering today about one of the ways doctors declare people to be dead.


Bioethicists, doctors and lawyers are weighing whether to redefine how someone should be declared dead. A change in criteria for brain death could have wide-ranging implications for patients’ care.

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