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With regard to partial brain death as a sufficient criterion of human death, the authors hold the following:
{ 1 } - Since functioning of the neocortex is the basis for human consciousness, when it no longer functions, the human is dead.
{ 2 } - For cortical brain death to be considered human death, the rest of the brain would have to be considered necessary for the specifically human functions of thinking and willing, rather than existing only to maintain and move the body and supply the higher brain centers with nourishing materials.
{ 3 } - For cortical brain death to be considered human death, the essential structures necessary and sufficient to constitute the unified organism of the human person would have to be found in the cortical function of the human brain, separated from the rest of the body.
{ 4 } - Since those who have no cortical functioning may be considered dead, so also retarded, senile, and infirm people may be considered dead.
{ 5 } - Human death should be determined by the cessation of functions distinctly human since breathing, heartbeat, and circulation are vegetative processes shared by other animals.
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With regard to partial brain death as a sufficient criterion of human death, the authors hold the following:
{ 1 } - Since functioning of the neocortex is the basis for human consciousness, when it no longer functions, the human is dead.
{ 2 } - For cortical brain death to be considered human death, the rest of the brain would have to be considered necessary for the specifically human functions of thinking and willing, rather than existing only to maintain and move the body and supply the higher brain centers with nourishing materials.
{ 3 } - For cortical brain death to be considered human death, the essential structures necessary and sufficient to constitute the unified organism of the human person would have to be found in the cortical function of the human brain, separated from the rest of the body.
{ 4 } - Since those who have no cortical functioning may be considered dead, so also retarded, senile, and infirm people may be considered dead.
{ 5 } - Human death should be determined by the cessation of functions distinctly human since breathing, heartbeat, and circulation are vegetative processes shared by other animals.
See p. 403.
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With regard to partial brain death as a sufficient criterion of human death, the authors hold the following:
{ 1 } - Since functioning of the neocortex is the basis for human consciousness, when it no longer functions, the human is dead.
{ 2 } - For cortical brain death to be considered human death, the rest of the brain would have to be considered necessary for the specifically human functions of thinking and willing, rather than existing only to maintain and move the body and supply the higher brain centers with nourishing materials.
{ 3 } - For cortical brain death to be considered human death, the essential structures necessary and sufficient to constitute the unified organism of the human person would have to be found in the cortical function of the human brain, separated from the rest of the body.
{ 4 } - Since those who have no cortical functioning may be considered dead, so also retarded, senile, and infirm people may be considered dead.
{ 5 } - Human death should be determined by the cessation of functions distinctly human since breathing, heartbeat, and circulation are vegetative processes shared by other animals.
No, the rest of the brain would have to be found to be UNnecessary for specifically human functions. See p. 404.
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With regard to partial brain death as a sufficient criterion of human death, the authors hold the following:
{ 1 } - Since functioning of the neocortex is the basis for human consciousness, when it no longer functions, the human is dead.
{ 2 } - For cortical brain death to be considered human death, the rest of the brain would have to be considered necessary for the specifically human functions of thinking and willing, rather than existing only to maintain and move the body and supply the higher brain centers with nourishing materials.
{ 3 } - For cortical brain death to be considered human death, the essential structures necessary and sufficient to constitute the unified organism of the human person would have to be found in the cortical function of the human brain, separated from the rest of the body.
{ 4 } - Since those who have no cortical functioning may be considered dead, so also retarded, senile, and infirm people may be considered dead.
{ 5 } - Human death should be determined by the cessation of functions distinctly human since breathing, heartbeat, and circulation are vegetative processes shared by other animals.
See p. 403.
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With regard to partial brain death as a sufficient criterion of human death, the authors hold the following:
{ 1 } - Since functioning of the neocortex is the basis for human consciousness, when it no longer functions, the human is dead.
{ 2 } - For cortical brain death to be considered human death, the rest of the brain would have to be considered necessary for the specifically human functions of thinking and willing, rather than existing only to maintain and move the body and supply the higher brain centers with nourishing materials.
{ 3 } - For cortical brain death to be considered human death, the essential structures necessary and sufficient to constitute the unified organism of the human person would have to be found in the cortical function of the human brain, separated from the rest of the body.
{ 4 } - Since those who have no cortical functioning may be considered dead, so also retarded, senile, and infirm people may be considered dead.
{ 5 } - Human death should be determined by the cessation of functions distinctly human since breathing, heartbeat, and circulation are vegetative processes shared by other animals.
See p. 403.
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With regard to partial brain death as a sufficient criterion of human death, the authors hold the following:
{ 1 } - Since functioning of the neocortex is the basis for human consciousness, when it no longer functions, the human is dead.
{ 2 } - For cortical brain death to be considered human death, the rest of the brain would have to be considered necessary for the specifically human functions of thinking and willing, rather than existing only to maintain and move the body and supply the higher brain centers with nourishing materials.
{ 3 } - For cortical brain death to be considered human death, the essential structures necessary and sufficient to constitute the unified organism of the human person would have to be found in the cortical function of the human brain, separated from the rest of the body.
{ 4 } - Since those who have no cortical functioning may be considered dead, so also retarded, senile, and infirm people may be considered dead.
{ 5 } - Human death should be determined by the cessation of functions distinctly human since breathing, heartbeat, and circulation are vegetative processes shared by other animals.
See p. 403.
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