At 05:44 PM 5/6/97 -0500, you wrote: >In response to a question about braindeath Mile Holloway wrote: > >> Define death. What's your criteria? And don't tell me it's when you're >not alive.< > > I have >copied an article from the NY Times that addresses this issue. Yes, this has already been posted, but you misunderstand. I want to know what *Lori* considers to be death, as an exercise in reaching an understanding, not just of Lori undetstanding how death is declared, but of understanding how she came by this apparent misunderstanding about brain death. The legal definition of death, and the medical criteria used for declaring death are not so hard to understand that someone concerned about [7 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=05_1997&mid=1044314&hilit=BRAIN+FEEDBACK> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 05_1997&939563 Score: 78 Subject: NC17 In the Shadows of the Moon 13/25 by Joyce McKibben