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Debating when death begins, and the fate of abandoned lands

Science Magazine Podcast

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The Ethics of Clamping Organs to the Head

A lot of the debate here has to do with how we define death. If you're declaring death based on these criteria, then you change the state of those particular variables that you were looking at. We don't know if circulating blood into the brain after death could turn on awareness or turn on the sensation of pain.

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