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grams dealing affirmatively with
injustice and inequity in employment.
IV. MISCELLANEOUS
A.
Definition of Death
As a concomitant of the technological
advances in the field of medicine, there
has emerged the problem of determining,
for numerous purposes, whether and when
a person has died. When heart trans-
plants were made feasible, it became
evident that the traditional test -
cessation of respiration and heartbeat -
would no longer be universally valid. At
this point in time, the Heart Association
Committee on Ethics endorsed the concept
of brain death - i.e. a person is dead
when he or she has suffered an irrevers
ible cessation of spontaneous brain
function. Legislation and case law on
this matter is, however, still confused.
In order to rectify this situation, the
Heart Association would favor:
State legislation defining
death in neurological terms.
ts.ucsf.edu/docs/jzhdo227

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