A scary plan to revise the definition of death


Debating death: When is a patient on life support considered dead? The US Uniform Law Commission is considering whether the definition of brain dead should be revised but some doctors and academicians are against what they call a dangerous move. — Filepic/The Star

DEATH can’t be denied but it can be edited.

In 1981 in the United States, the Uniform Law Commission proposed a model law for the determination of death. It says that individuals have died when they have experienced an irreversible end to either their respiratory and circulatory functions or their brain functions. Most US states have adopted this definition, and the rest adopted it in substance if not precise wording.

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