Advances in medicine have meant that we’ve had to redefine what death is. It used to be easy – you were dead if your heart stopped working; if you couldn’t breathe. But now, we can restart hearts, and machines can breathe for you until you’re ready to take over again.
One neurologist says that “clinical death” doesn’t even have a consistent meaning. “You’re dead when your doctor says you’re dead,” apparently.
Life increasingly exists where previously it wouldn’t. The line of death is being pushed back – but what does death do to your rights?
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