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Who Is Dead? (2018)

• avivallssa 8y ago
  Liked Reading this !
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• Koshkin 8y ago
  "Brain death" == "irreversible coma," which is technically different from having an organ that has suffered a biological death.
  • rndgermandude 8y ago
    Not really. Brain death means the brain does not function at all, incl initiating breathing etc. A coma is described as "just" being unable to perform voluntary (high level) actions. So basically unresponsiveness. The usual coma patient is able to breeze on their own (sometimes with some assistance). A brain dead patient is not. One could argue that "brain dead" is a subset of "comatose", at best.
• agumonkey 8y ago
  A very profound subject.. didn't realize that people 200 years ago already faced the struggle.