New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failure to establi

President's Commission for the study of ethical problems in medicine and biomedical and behavioral research.

In the 1980s, following the recommendation of a presidential commission, all fifty states replaced previous cardiopulmonary definitions of death with one that a

Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an

Few issues apply universally to people as poignantly as death and dying. All religions address concerns with death from the handling of human remains, to defini