{"id":182574,"date":"2024-02-12T19:28:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T01:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/debate-simmers-over-when-doctors-should-declare-brain-death"},"modified":"2024-02-12T19:28:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T01:28:03","slug":"debate-simmers-over-when-doctors-should-declare-brain-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/debate-simmers-over-when-doctors-should-declare-brain-death","title":{"rendered":"Debate simmers over when doctors should declare brain death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/debate-simmers-over-when-doctors-should-declare-brain-death2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Franklin famously wrote: \u201cIn this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.\u201d While that may still be true, there\u2019s a controversy simmering today about one of the ways doctors declare people to be dead.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Bioethicists, doctors and lawyers are weighing whether to redefine how someone should be declared dead. A change in criteria for brain death could have wide-ranging implications for patients\u2019 care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Franklin famously wrote: \u201cIn this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.\u201d While that may still be true, there\u2019s a controversy simmering today about one of the ways doctors declare people to be dead. Bioethicists, doctors and lawyers are weighing whether to redefine how someone should be declared dead. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,30,1496,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-ethics","category-law","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}