brain death

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The alliance took a beating in recent years when Trump threatened to pull out of it and Macron declared that it was experiencing “brain death.”

From Washington Post

A paramedic noted Ellis was unconscious and unresponsive, had deteriorating respiration, a weak pulse and fixed and dilated pupils, which is an indication of possible brain death, the charges say.

From Seattle Times

The teenager's mother fought the diagnosis in court, citing her Christian faith, and received permission to move her daughter from California to New Jersey, which allows a religious exemption to a brain death declaration.

From Salon

Until then, almost all paediatric heart transplants came from patients who had suffered brain death, where although their heart might beat, they would never wake up.

From BBC

But in Tucker’s case, the surgeons needed to harvest the organs while they were maximally viable for transplantation and ignored this rule, instead invoking the novel concept of “brain death.”

From New York Times