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Best legal definition I've heard involves death. When is a person considered dead? Brain activity ceased irreversibly. In the opposite end you have first brain
by narag 4y ago
Best legal definition I've heard involves death. When is a person considered dead? Brain activity ceased irreversibly. In the opposite end you have first brain activity (around three months since fecundation) as the best milestone.
Of course there is philosophical discussion that goes beyond that, but since making it a crime is a legal matter, it's probably within reason.
- robonerd 4y ago> Best legal definition I've heard involves death. When is a person considered dead? Even that can become fiercely political.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_and_activism_in_the_Terri_Schiavo_case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_and_activism_in...
- dane-pgp 4y ago> In the opposite end Although it might be convenient to treat life as being somehow legally symmetrical, I think that is still a position that needs to be justified. To give a strange analogy, if someone gathers all the materials needed to make a bomb, but doesn't mix them together, they can still be arrested for bomb-making, even though, in a strictly chemical sense, they haven't made anything that can donate.