What Is the Definition of Death?

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In the 1980s, about a decade later, there was this push to figure out one definition of death. A group called the Uniform Law Commission suggested standardized laws for states to adopt. This commission pulled together a lot of information about death and boiled everything down to a single page. And it said: There are two different things that are both equally valid definitions of death.

Death used to be fairly self-evident, but new technologies have forced us to ask: When is someone actually dead? And now, new research is raising a further question: Could death someday be reversible?

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