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How Dying Works

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The Higher Brain Death Definition

After 1968 it took to 1981 a presidential Commission Is when they finally in the United States wrote a paper called defining death Medical legal and ethical issues and the determination of death. That was the basis for the uniform determination of death act which basically rejected the Harvard idea that The higher brain which is like when your personality and your memories are gone means you're dead. They rejected that in favor of the whole brain Which includes the brain stem which is what keeps you breathing and functioning? So Harvard was like, yeah, right? I think I subscribe to the higher brain death definition of death. Yeah The brain stem. It's pretty sure you can be born with just a brain stem. We talked about Mike

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