If a person loses all brain function, he or she is considered legally dead. But the cases of Jahi McMath and Marlise Muñoz have shown that even... Death seems one of life's few certainties, but the ...

A recent and highly disturbing New York Times article promoting the idea that doctors should expand the definition of death in order to harvest more organs is stirring up disgust and debate about ...

Scientists studying the nuances of human death have struggled with defining when death actually happens and when a person has crossed the threshold, making death an inevitability. New research reveals ...

AS challenges the use of hypothetical cases to argue in support of one view about death over the other. I agree with David Hershenov that some thought experiments can be useful. However, I also think ...

After surveying the views expressed by 41 advocacy, medical, and transplant-focused organizations on the Uniform Determination of Death Act, a brain injury expert is calling for much-needed reforms to ...

The legal definition of death is ever-evolving. Yesterday’s Daily Beast report detailed just how hard it is to legally define death, which before 1959 was defined simply as the heart and lungs ceasing ...

As America’s organ transplant system faces scrutiny from the Department of Health and Human Services for a “systemic disregard for sanctity of life,” three doctors from New York’s largest healthcare ...