The concept of death has evolved as technology has progressed. This has forced medicine and society to redefine its ancient cardiorespiratory centred diagnosis to a neurocentric diagnosis of death.

Turns out there’s no true consensus among doctors, bioethicists, and philosophers. The way death is determined can even change as you cross state lines. Is it when our brains completely shut down? Is ...

Who gets counted as a COVID-19 death has been questioned for months, with no formal definition in place nationwide as officials adapt to a new disease’s destructive impact. Conspiracy theories have ...

The philosophical investigation of human death has focused on two overarching questions: What is human death? and How can we determine that it has occurred? The first question is ontological or ...

The definition of death is surprisingly slippery. Before the 1950s someone was usually considered dead if their heart had stopped pumping and they’d ceased to breathe on their own. But in 1968, a ...

Explore the complex brain death definition and its implications through the heart-wrenching case of baby Theresa and organ donation. In a recent test case a Florida couple sued a local hospital to ...

To evaluate whether current clinical criteria and confirmatory tests for the diagnosis of ‘brain death’ satisfy the requirements for the irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain ...

When state public health officials publish Monday's report about the latest COVID-19 impacts on Massachusetts, the cumulative death toll through two years of the pandemic will suddenly stand about 15% ...

BOSTON (CBS) – The number of people who have died from COVID-19 in Massachusetts will decrease by 3,700 after the state adjusted its definition of what classifies as a death caused by the disease.

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Two years to the day that the Bay State’s COVID-19 state of emergency started, health officials announced that the state’s overall COVID death count is dropping by nearly 4,000 deaths. That’s because ...