When Is Someone Really, Truly Dead? The World Brain Death Project Seeks a New Answer – ScienceAlert

After your heart beats one last time, but before your body begins to decay, your life will come to an end. Strange as it seems, physicians around the world can’t agree on the exact moment death finally occurs.
A project aiming to find consensus on human mortality has now published its recommendations on what should constitute minimum clinical standards qualifying an individual as officially deceased.
Given the sheer diversity of legal, religious, and moral values different cultures use to fram…

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