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Definition of death as "brain death" proposed.
Date: 1968
Death/dying/deceased
Medical system (Western medicine)
An ad hoc committee of doctors at Harvard Medical School proposes redefining death to include brain death as well as heart and lung death. Gradually this definition will become accepted.
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