Death is the great unknown, the final frontier that every living being must cross, yet no one returns to explain what lies beyond. It is an experience that defies human comprehension, for it ...

A new method of obtaining organs for transplantation has some in the medical community questioning whether donors are technically "dead." The... A Struggle To Define 'Death' For Organ Donors A new ...

I was a medical student when I first saw someone die. A middle-aged woman lay in the intensive-care unit surrounded by machinery that recorded her heartbeat, measured her blood pressure and pumped air ...