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Area of Science:

  • Medical Philosophy
  • Neuroscience
  • Bioethics

Background:

  • D. Alan Shewmon challenged the widely accepted total brain death criterion for human death.
  • The standard argument for the total brain death criterion has been refuted by Shewmon.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate that Shewmon’s argument against the total brain death criterion is unsound.
  • To present a new argument supporting the total brain death criterion.
  • To address potential objections to the total brain death criterion.

Main Methods:

  • Philosophical argumentation
  • Analysis of the concept of human death
  • Examination of the capacity for sentience

Main Results:

  • Shewmon’s challenge to the total brain death criterion is demonstrably unsound.
  • A novel argument for the total brain death criterion is established.
  • The loss of the radical capacity for sentience is identified as the defining characteristic of human death.

Conclusions:

  • Total brain death in humans signifies the irreversible loss of the radical capacity for sentience.
  • This loss constitutes the death of the human organism.
  • Therefore, total brain death is death in human beings.