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death as final by definition... The effect of physical death on any possible non... Death in this context is now seen as less an event than a process... a dividing line is drawn between life and death depends on factors beyond the presence or absence of... clinical death is neither necessary nor sufficient for a determination of... Death remains a central mystery of life itself... Death and the law... Death is an important part of the process of... of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of that species... After death the remains of an organism become part of the... One of the challenges in defining death is in distinguishing it from life... Death would seem to refer to either the moment at which life ends or the state... determining when death has occurred requires drawing precise conceptual boundaries between life and death... This general problem of defining death applies to the particular challenge of defining death in the context of medicine... s death have been problematic... Death was once defined as the cessation of... linked to death in the past no longer kill in all circumstances... It appears that once brain death has been determined... Many have challenged the idea that brain death is equivalent to the cessation of consciousness... brain death does not necessitate the end of consciousness... even if brain death does mean the end of consciousness for a human being... defining death in terms of... Thus while legal concerns surrounding death force us to develop a working definition of death... Eventually it is possible that the criterion for death will be the permanent and irreversible loss of... brought the question of brain death and artificial sustenance to the front of... the determination of brain death can be complicated... hospitals have protocols for determining brain death involving EEGs at widely separated intervals under defined conditions... ideas about when death occurs may have to be re... Death and the law... Death and the law... a person is dead if a Statement of Death or Death Certificate is approved by a licensed medical practitioner... Death can be caused by... Many leading developed world causes of death can be postponed by... s death and to evaluate any... autopsy is carried out when the cause of death may be a criminal matter... is performed to find the medical cause of death and is used in cases of unknown or uncertain death... upon legal death so that they can await the time when future... Death haunts even the beautiful... Death haunts even the beautiful... Death is the center of many traditions and organizations... Legal aspects of death are also part of many cultures... the death penalty is reserved as punishment for premeditated... have imposed death sentences for offenses such as... Death in warfare and in... death for a cause by way of suicide attack... How the medical profession categorized causes of death a century ago... A biologist explains life and death in different kinds of organisms in relation to evolution...

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