Reexamining Death The Asymptotic Model and a Bounded Zone Definition

The traditional Western understanding of life and death as a strict dichotomy is challenged by a more descriptively accurate model of life's progressive cessation. Dying can be defined by a bounded zone of residual states of life that fits better with moral intuition and more sensitively guides...

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Main Author: Emanuel, Linda L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 1995
In: The Hastings Center report
Year: 1995, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 27-35
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Summary:The traditional Western understanding of life and death as a strict dichotomy is challenged by a more descriptively accurate model of life's progressive cessation. Dying can be defined by a bounded zone of residual states of life that fits better with moral intuition and more sensitively guides action toward the dying.
ISSN:1552-146X
Contains:Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3562159