The parents of OU rugby player Jozsef Pal are calling for justice after their son died from a traumatic brain injury.

Recent dubious brain death diagnoses have some calling for an end to the controversial protocol.

In cases of brain death, where the heart may still be beating, the patient has lost all vital brain functions, particularly in the brain stem.

Brain death, also called death by neurological criteria, is the practice of declaring a person dead based on the loss of brain function, rather than the stoppage of the heart and breathing.

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