February 22, 2002

The Unsettled Question of Brain Death

By PETER MONAGHAN

Cultural views differ of a notion with broad importance in a technological age

It is a rather unnerving fact that whether you are dead or alive may depend on where you live.

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How Do Doctors Decide?

In most developed nations, once your brain stops functioning, you are considered "brain dead," and "brain

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