Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the earliest times the moment of death has been recognized as the time the heart beat ceased. Is there adequate evidence now that the "moment of death" should be advanced to coincide with brain death while the heart continues to beat...
...moment of death can have legal importance, but the criteria by which death is established must depend upon medical evidence. Granted that there may be a time when it is good, i.e., appropriate, to die -- but when is that moment? What are its criteria...
...same time one can share Schreiner's (1966, p. 100) disconent and insist that "a coordinating vital principle exists which is either there or not there." This vital principle comes into being when the sperm fertilizes the ovum and persists until life no longer is present. The moment of death can only be approximated...
...seems clear that any "updating" of the moment of death, in view of the differences among the experts who have given much thought to the matter, would be a legal impossibility at this time, however theologically and scientifically sound it might be. This is not to argue against "updating"; it is to suggest the propriety of caution. These are encouraging signs. Consider the following celebrated case...
...with manslaughter. He was then committed for trial by the coroner. The coroner had consented to the nephrectomy in accordance with the Human Tissue Act, 1961, section 1(5) and the jury found that this had not contributed to death. In the discussion following, it was proposed that the moment of death be defined as the moment when spontaneous heart beat cannot be restored. Others (Louisell, 1966) raise the question of whether the moment of death might not best be defined as "the moment at which ireversible destruction of brain matter, with no possibility of regaining consciousness, is conclusively determined...