Johaimic Masks was legally brain dead in California, but alive in New Jersey. She had a tube surgically placed in her stomach so that she could be fed and went on to live for almost another five years in this state. On June 22nd, 2018, Johaimic Mab died of various complications, including problems with her liver. To this day, she has two death certificates, both of which are apparently valid.
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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