Hospitals Decide On Patients Death

When Are You Dead? It May Depend On Which Hospital Makes The Call.

The narrow, inscrutable zone between undeniably still here and unequivocally gone includes a range of states that look like life but may not be: a beating heart, a functioning digestive system, even moving fingers and toes. Death is less a moment then a process, a gradual drift out of existence as essential functions switch off, be it rapidly or on...