Editing Death (section)

==== Total brain death ====
At present, in most places, the more conservative definition of death (irreversible cessation of electrical activity in the whole brain, as opposed to just in the neo-cortex) has been adopted. One example is the [[Uniform Determination Of Death Act]] in the United States.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws |url=https://lchc.ucsd.edu/cogn_150/Readings/death_act.pdf |title=Uniform Determination of Death Act |last2=American Bar Association |last3=American Medical Association |year=1981 |access-date=15 February 2023 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326130414/https://lchc.ucsd.edu/cogn_150/Readings/death_act.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> In the past, the adoption of this whole-brain definition was a conclusion of the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research in 1980.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lewis |first1=Ariane |last2=Cahn-Fuller |first2=Katherine |last3=Caplan |first3=Arthur |title=Shouldn't Dead Be Dead?: The Search for a Uniform Definition of Death |journal=Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics |date=2017 |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=112–128 |doi=10.1177/1073110517703105 |pmid=28661278 }}</ref> They concluded that this approach to defining death sufficed in reaching a uniform definition nationwide. A multitude of reasons was presented to support this definition, including uniformity of standards in law for establishing death, consumption of a family's fiscal resources for artificial life support, and legal establishment for equating brain death with death to proceed with [[organ donation]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sarbey|first=Ben|date=2016-12-01|title=Definitions of death: brain death and what matters in a person|journal=Journal of Law and the Biosciences|volume=3|issue=3|pages=743–752|doi=10.1093/jlb/lsw054|pmid=28852554|pmc=5570697}}</ref>