The Concept of Death Is a human alive who has only his vegetative functions and no consciousness of his being? Is not a patient virtually dead who has no brain activity whatsoever? And if he is in irreversible coma, can his organs be removed for transplantation into a conscious body? These questions and even more vexing ones have recently raised a host of legal, ethical, moral, and religious considerations that require resolution. Ideas about what constitutes death vary with different cultures and in different epochs. In Western societies, death has traditionally been seen as the departure of the soul from the body. In this tradition, the essence of being human is independent on physical properties. The cessation of breathing in this tradition has been taken as the sign of death as the soul cannot be physically seen leaving the body and therefor another sign m....

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