Death seems one of life's few certainties, but the cases of a girl and a young woman who are being kept on life support even though they are legally dead show how difficult it still can be to agree on ...

As America’s organ transplant system faces scrutiny from the Department of Health and Human Services for a “systemic disregard for sanctity of life,” three doctors from New York’s largest healthcare ...

A recent and highly disturbing New York Times article promoting the idea that doctors should expand the definition of death in order to harvest more organs is stirring up disgust and debate about ...

Re “We Need a New Definition of Death,” by Sandeep Jauhar, Snehal Patel and Deane Smith (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 1): As a physician and a neuroethicist who has argued for the rights of people with a ...

I have noticed that the abortion debate always gets locked up on the definition of when life begins. I think that the definition of life and the definition of death are dependent on each other. I also ...

A new method of obtaining organs for transplantation has some in the medical community questioning whether donors are technically "dead." The... A Struggle To Define 'Death' For Organ Donors A new ...

New research has thrown the definition of death into question. According to the United State's Uniform Determination of Death Act of 1981, death is defined as either the "irreversible cessation of ...