In 2013, Surgical Neurology International published a protocol for the GEMINI procedure, the world’s first human head transplant surgery. With the assumption that head transplants are possible in the future, we introduce a legal thought experiment that calls the current criteria of death under the United States UDDA into question. Utilizing case law and examples of contemporary medical interventions, we analyze how neurological and circulatory systems can be reversed and challenge the UDDA criteria of death. We favor the definition of death that includes the irreversibility of the brain and brainstem, but recommend the Uniform Law Commission strike irreversible respiratory and circulatory functions as indicators of death. We also recommend that a congressional bill should be proposed for the definition of death, allowing Article Six to supersede the current legal landscape.

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人头移植如何改变死亡的法律定义

2013 年，Surgical Neurology International 发布了 GEMINI 手术方案，这是世界上第一个人类头部移植手术。假设未来可能进行头部移植，我们引入了一项法律思想实验，对美国 UDDA 下的当前死亡标准提出质疑。利用判例法和当代医学干预的例子，我们分析了神经系统和循环系统如何被逆转并挑战 UDDA 的死亡标准。我们赞成死亡的定义，包括大脑和脑干的不可逆性，但建议统一法律委员会将不可逆的呼吸和循环功能作为死亡指标。我们还建议国会提出一项关于死亡定义的法案，