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First Heart Transplant Ethical Concerns
- In 1967, the first heart transplant raised ethical questions about donor death.
- Removing a beating heart for transplant challenged conventional death understandings.
Unified Death Definition
- The 1980s saw a push for a unified death definition in the US, resulting in two criteria.
- These criteria are cardiorespiratory death and brain death, both now legally recognized.
Jahi McMath Case
- Jahi McMath's 2013 case highlighted the legal discrepancies in brain death.
- Declared brain dead in California but alive in New Jersey due to religious exemptions, she lived for several more years.