For decades, brain death has been an important but problematic factor for determining death. Is it time for a new approach?

Explaining parts of this dilemma, a 2023 study published in the Frontier’s in Aging Neuroscience, shows what happens in our brain when we die or are at the brink of death.

Independent third-party certification of death might be a brake on misplaced priorities. Finally, some believe that harvesting organs should not be allowed until all brain activity has ceased.

While the cause of Whalen's death is yet to be determined, brain injury experts said it is possible that people who suffered from a traumatic brain injury can die from a related seizure years later.

Doctors declared Jahi McMath brain dead, but her family says she's alive. — -- The California family that fought to keep their teenage daughter on life support after she was declared brain ...