Criteria wanted. Is the brain dead or alive?

Just as the physiologic activities that comprise life form a continuum, the changes during the process of dying also form a continuum. However, medicine, government, and popular culture force the binary determination as to whether a human is alive or dead. This necessitates applying a set of threshold criteria to the available clinical information. One criterion is the Uniform Determination of Brain Death Act (Anonymous 1981) used in the United States which states: "An individual who has sustained either (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or (2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead.

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