Group 4 Death, Abortion, and Animal Welfare
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PROBLEMS WITH A SOMATIC
DEFINITION OF DEATH
For an individual to be dead
by this definition, the
stoppage of bodily integrative function such as
circulatory and respiratory function must be
irreversible
It is very common but very wrong for clinicians and
others to refer to someone who has suffered a cardiac
arrest and been successfully resuscitated as having
been “clinically dead.” Being dead means irreversible
loss of circulatory function
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