Ep. 109: Redefining Death by Revising the UDDA
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The Third Change to the UDDA - Hypothalamus
Two proposals have been brought to the committee at large because there hasn't been a consensus. The first proposal would be leave it alone, right? Leave the language alone. We're talking about whole brain death. And that's how they were trying to say your brain is objectively dead. Now the second proposal and that wording might not be a hundred percent correct. But you'll notice that they don't talk about the hypothalamus or what's referred to as neuroendocrine function. So those are, you know, what the functions of the hypothalamus are.
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