Brain death--an opposing viewpoint

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Recent and proposed legislation to establish brain-related criteria of death has uniformly confounded irreversible cessation of total brain function with death of the human person. Much confusion comes from widespread misunderstanding of how the word death is used and what it means. Cessation of total brain function, whether irreversible or not, is not necessarily linked to total brain destruction or to the person''s death. To take vital organs or to otherwise treat people as though they were already dead, on the basis of these recent criteria, is morally unacceptable to most Orthodox Jews and Christians.

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