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centrality of the brain in law is revealed in law's test of death:
Legal death happens when there is irreversible cessation of brain
activity. Brain activity is a necessary condition to legal personhood,
and, perhaps with the exception of the fetus, it is a sufficient
condition for legal personhood. "It appears that once brain
death has been determined … no criminal or civil liability
will result from disconnecting the life-support devices." Dority
v. Superior Court of San Bernardino County, 193 Cal.Rptr. 288, 291
(1983) |
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