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In cases of brain death, where the heart may still be beating, the patient has lost all vital brain functions, particularly in the brain stem, and this is usually terminal,” says Dr Ogutha. In an ...

Even in cases of brain death, where the heart may still be beating, the person has lost all vital brain functions, particularly in the brain stem.

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This question of what constitutes death and the attendant matter of who ought to make decisions for brain-dead people are really at the center of Smith’s story.