Death pluralism: a proposal
Abstract The debate over the determination of death has been raging for more than fifty years. Since then, objections against the diagnosis of brain death from family members of those diagnosed as dead-have been increasing and are causing some countries to take novel steps to accommodate people’s be...
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| description | Abstract The debate over the determination of death has been raging for more than fifty years. Since then, objections against the diagnosis of brain death from family members of those diagnosed as dead-have been increasing and are causing some countries to take novel steps to accommodate people’s beliefs and preferences in the determination of death. This, coupled with criticism by some academics of the brain death criterion, raises some questions about the issues surrounding the determination of death. In this paper, we discuss some of the main approaches to death determination that have been theoretically proposed or currently put into practice and propose a new approach to death determination called "weak pluralism" as a reasonable ethical and political alternative to respect diversity in death determination. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-de2f3e5c37d745f4bc1e3aa7db277a9b2023-11-26T13:57:37ZengBMCPhilosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine1747-53412023-08-0118111210.1186/s13010-023-00139-3Death pluralism: a proposalGonzalo Díaz-Cobacho0Alberto Molina-Pérez1David Rodríguez-Arias2Department of Philosophy I, University of GranadaInstituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados (IESA), CSIC, IESA-CSICDepartment of Philosophy I, University of GranadaAbstract The debate over the determination of death has been raging for more than fifty years. Since then, objections against the diagnosis of brain death from family members of those diagnosed as dead-have been increasing and are causing some countries to take novel steps to accommodate people’s beliefs and preferences in the determination of death. This, coupled with criticism by some academics of the brain death criterion, raises some questions about the issues surrounding the determination of death. In this paper, we discuss some of the main approaches to death determination that have been theoretically proposed or currently put into practice and propose a new approach to death determination called "weak pluralism" as a reasonable ethical and political alternative to respect diversity in death determination.https://doi.org/10.1186/s13010-023-00139-3PluralismBrain deathAccommodationBioethicsReligion |
| spellingShingle | Gonzalo Díaz-Cobacho Alberto Molina-Pérez David Rodríguez-Arias Death pluralism: a proposal Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine Pluralism Brain death Accommodation Bioethics Religion |
| title | Death pluralism: a proposal |
| title_full | Death pluralism: a proposal |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Death pluralism: a proposal |
| title_short | Death pluralism: a proposal |
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| topic | Pluralism Brain death Accommodation Bioethics Religion |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13010-023-00139-3 |
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