Brain Death Research Paper

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Brain death is the way many people die because their brain no longer functions, but should they still continue to live until their heart stops beating? Brain death is when the brain has died and there is no more voluntary or involuntary actions of it. Cardiac death is when the heart has stopped beating and the person cannot be resuscitated. The law has now made it to where people are legally dead when their brain dies, but many individuals still believe they are still alive because their heart is beating. A patient should be considered dead when their brain dies because they will never be brought back, the brain functions do not work anymore, and if they are left on the ventilator too long viable organs could go to waste. When a patient’s

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