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McKitty v. Hayani

A case where a woman was declared brain-dead, but her family objected to removing life support.

Legal Definition of Death

Deciding when someone is legally dead is not just a medical question; it's an evaluative judgment by the law.

Jeff McMahan

Supports the Higher Brain View: death happens when consciousness ends, not when the body dies.

Advance Requests for MAID

Should be respected even if the person is no longer conscious, because the wishes of the past self matter most.

Critique of Standard Deprivation Accounts

Death is bad because it deprives us of life, but McMahan critiques standard deprivation accounts.

John Broome

Argues that death is harmful by comparative harm, cutting life short and depriving us of future good experiences.

Lucretius / Epicurus

Death is nothing to us; when alive, death isn't present; when dead, we don't exist to be harmed.

Symmetry Argument

We don't fear the time before we were born, so we shouldn't fear the time after death.

Doomsday Scenario / Scheffler

Imagines Earth destroyed 30 days after your death, showing we care about the collective future of humanity.

Higher Brain View (HBV)

Death occurs at the irreversible loss of consciousness, focusing on the person, not the biological organism.

Whole Brain View

Requires all brain functions to stop for death to be declared.

Robert Truog

Critiques treatment of families when brain death is declared and advocates for honesty about brain death.

Ethics of Organ Donation

Accepts organ donation can be ethical even if the patient isn't strictly 'dead.'

UDDA

Uniform Determination of Death Act, which Truog participated in revising.

Interest-Independent Value / Dignity

Everyone has intrinsic worth, not dependent on personal interests; basis of Kantian ethics.

Lazarus Sign

Involuntary spinal reflex seen in brain-dead patients that can look like life but doesn't indicate consciousness.

Population Ethics

Deals with value across many lives: quality vs. quantity of life.

Afterlife Conjecture

Human projects feel valuable only if humanity continues.

Parfit's Repugnant Conclusion

Summing up lives can lead to counterintuitive conclusions about value.

Broome's Comparative Harm

Decisions weigh the goodness of lives lost vs. lives lived.