Brain Death — Well Settled yet Still Unresolved

Abstract

In addition to these philosophical and legal quarrels with the Uniform Determination of Death Act, the current concept of death has been challenged on medical grounds: some biologic activity, which the commentators believe constitutes important brain functions, remains in some bodies found to have suffered an "irreversible loss of all functions of the entire brain."22 If a particular activity were so physiologically integrative that it would have to be absent before death could be declared, then measures of...