Posts Tagged ‘cardiac death’
Radiolab: After Life… Now with John Troyer!
28, Jul 2009Radiolab: After Life originally aired July 27, 2009. What happens at the moment when we slip from life… to the other side? Is it a moment? If it is a moment, when is that moment? And what happens afterward? It’s a show of questions that don’t have easy answers. So, in a slight departure from [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Afterlife
- Tags: brain death, cardiac death, definition of death, moment of death, podcast
Re-thinking the Definition of Death in Canada
18, Jul 2009Ethicist Seeks Law to Say When Dead Is Truly Dead Tom Blackwell, National Post (July 16, 2009) How and when an individual is determined to be dead is a persistent bio-ethical, medical, and philosophical debate. I came across this article on the debate in Canada and I think that it highlights a common set of [...]