Reexamining Death The Asymptotic Model and a Bounded Zone Definition

Hastings Center Report 25 (4):27-35 (1995)
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The traditional Western understanding of life and death as a strict dichotomy is challenged by a more descriptively accurate model of life's progressive cessation. Dying can be defined by a bounded zone of residual states of life that fits better with moral intuition and more sensitively guides action toward the dying.

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Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person.Harry Frankfurt - 1982 - In Gary Watson (ed.), Free will. New York: Oxford University Press.
On dying as a process.Fred Feldman - 1989 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (2):375-390.

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