or is it later? When? What are your opinions?
Some things are matters of opinion.Only one definition lag. The only question is whether or not one thinks it matters or not.
or is it later? When? What are your opinions?
It might had they not chosen to make a seperate term "brain dead" to define it.If human life ends when the brain ceases to function, doesn't it follow that it begins when the brain begins to function?
A person who is "brain dead" is determined to be dead even if the heart is still beating. So, it is brain function that determines if a person is alive, not the beating heart and certainly not the possession of a unique genome. If having a unique DNA is the determinant, then the Neanderthal from whom the DNA of that species was sequenced was still alive.It might had they not chosen to make a seperate term "brain dead" to define it.
Techmically speaking brain dead was coined as a legal distinction not a medical or scienyific one.A person who is "brain dead" is determined to be dead even if the heart is still beating. So, it is brain function that determines if a person is alive, not the beating heart and certainly not the possession of a unique genome. If having a unique DNA is the determinant, then the Neanderthal from whom the DNA of that species was sequenced was still alive.
True, but that complete and unique DNA still exists long after the individual ceases to breathe or have brain function.Techmically speaking brain dead was coined as a legal distinction not a medical or scienyific one.
The dna example doesnt work as caveman's portiion is only a portion. When sperm and egg merge a new complete and unique is created.
If human life ends when the brain ceases to function, doesn't it follow that it begins when the brain begins to function?