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NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 6, Issue 11, Pages 899-909Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1789
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The concept of death has evolved as technology has progressed. This has forced medicine and society to redefine its ancient cardiorespiratory centred diagnosis to a neurocentric diagnosis of death. The apparent consensus about the definition of death has not yet appeased all controversy. Ethical, moral and religious concerns continue to surface and include a prevailing malaise about possible expansions of the definition of death to encompass the vegetative state or about the feared bias of formulating criteria so as to facilitate organ transplantation.
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