Drawing on a recent case report of a pregnant, brain-dead woman who gave birth to a healthy child after over seven months of intensive care treatment, this essay rejects the established doctrine in medicine that brain death constitutes the biological death of the human being. The essay describes three policy options with respect to determination of death and vital organ transplantation in the case of patients who are irreversibly comatose but remain biologically alive.

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是时候放弃脑死亡是生物死亡的教条了

借鉴最近的案例报告，一名脑死亡孕妇在经过七个多月的重症监护治疗后生下了一个健康的孩子，这篇文章拒绝了医学上的既定学说，即脑死亡构成人类的生物学死亡。这篇文章描述了关于确定死亡和重要器官移植的三种政策选择，这些政策选择是针对不可逆转的昏迷但在生物学上仍然存活的患者。