Total brain death—the complete and irreversible cessation of functioning of all parts of the brain—has been widely accepted in ethics and law as a valid criterion for pronouncing t
Discrepancies between the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) and the adult and pediatric diagnostic guidelines for brain death (BD) (the “Guidelines”) have motivated proposa
On August 29, 2000, Pope John Paul II addressed the 18th International Congress of the Transplantation Society that was being held in Rome. His brief discourse to that meeting of p
The philosophical investigation of human death has focused on two overarching questions: (1) What is human death? and (2) How can we determine that it has occurred? The first quest
Few philosophical questions have as much practical import as how to understand the nature of organismic death (hereafter, “death” see Death).Dead human beings, for example, are bel
The most fundamental philosophical question about death is the question concerning its nature or essence – ‘What is death?’. When philosophers offer answers to this question, they
The Supreme Pontiff declares that the Church’s action gains support from scientific discovery. Human life and dignity must be defended at all points and thus researchers must at ti
It is a well-known fact that for some time certain scientific approaches to ascertaining death have shifted the emphasis from the traditional cardio-respiratory signs to the so-cal
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