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Dead or Alive? ...
In The Quarterly ten years ago an editorial asserted, "Every doctor in general practice knows quite well when someone is indisputedly dead, not merely clinically dead, and until then we should adhere to the dictum that while there is life there is hope". ...
Certainly in the majority of cases, since brain death is part of, or the culmination of, failure of all vital functions, there is no necessity for a doctor specifically to identify brain death individually before concluding the patient is dead. ... In America, for example, a person could be considered dead in one State and not dead in another.
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