{"id":1178,"date":"2010-04-27T09:36:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T13:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2010-05-27T18:48:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T22:48:59","slug":"buddhism-and-death-the-brain-centered-criteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/27\/buddhism-and-death-the-brain-centered-criteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain-Centered Criteria for Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 12, 2005<\/h6>\n<h3>Buddhism and Death: The Brain-Centered Criteria<\/h3>\n<p>John-Anderson L. Meyer<br \/>\nUniversity of Hawai&#8217;i<\/p>\n<p>This essay explores the two main definitions of human death that have gained popularity in the western medical context in recent years, and attempts to determine which of these criteria\u2014\u201cwhole-brain\u201d or \u201ccerebral\u201d\u2014is best in accord with a Buddhist understanding of death. In the end, the position is taken that there is textual and linguistic evidence in place for both the \u201ccerebral\u201d and \u201cwhole-brain\u201d definitions of death. Because the textual sources underdetermine the definitive Buddhist conception of death, it is left to careful reasoning by way of logic, intuition, and inference to determine which definition of death is best representative of Buddhism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2010\/04\/meyer402.pdf\">Read Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 12, 2005 Buddhism and Death: The Brain-Centered Criteria John-Anderson L. Meyer University of Hawai&#8217;i This essay explores the two main definitions of human death that have gained popularity in the western medical context in recent years, and attempts to determine which of these criteria\u2014\u201cwhole-brain\u201d or \u201ccerebral\u201d\u2014is best in accord with a Buddhist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/27\/buddhism-and-death-the-brain-centered-criteria\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brain-Centered Criteria for Death<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2386],"tags":[2816,2746,1939,2590],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-12-2005","tag-bioethics","tag-biomedicine","tag-death","tag-medical-ethics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-j0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}