Diametros 55:68-90 (2018)
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In this paper, I defend brain death as a criterion for determining death against objections raised by Don Marquis, Michael Nair-Collins, Doyen Nguyen, and Laura Specker Sullivan. I argue that any definition of death for beings like us relies on some sortal concept by which we are individuated and identified and that the choice of that concept in a practical context is not determined by strictly biological considerations but involves metaphysical, moral, social, and cultural considerations. This view supports acceptance of a more pluralistic legal definition of death as well as acceptance of brain death as death.
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| Keywords | brain death death decapitation and death definition of death irreversibility and death organic integration persons and death social construction of death |
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| DOI | 10.13153/diam.1177 |
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