
Redefining death
Unexplainable
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Are There Different Ways That Humans Might Be Dead?
In December 1967, Dr. Christian Bernard performed the first heart transplant in Cape Town. This began this conversation about are there different ways that humans might be dead? That conversation eventually evolved into a decades-long quest to figure out whether there are actually different ways to determine death and to pin down what the definition of death is.
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