Definitions of death: brain death and what matters in a person

Definitions of death: brain death and what matters in a person

In defense of whole-brain definitions of death.

Death: What It Is and Why It Matters

Kathy Behrendt ‘A special way of being afraid: fear of death as such’ I am interested in fear of one’s own death taken as fear of non-existence, nothingness, or as it is sometimes called, fear of death as such. This form of fear has been denied or downplayed by some philosophers. Philosophy of the emotions has particular trouble in dealing with it, granting it a status that is simultaneously pa...

The Death of a Person

Death, Brain Death, and the Death of Death: Death as a Concept in Continuing Evolution