How do you define "death" in such a way that it is NOT synonymous with "the point at which life ends"? I thought that was the definition of "death".
The American Academy of Neurology has a paper on determining Brain Death:
http://www.aan.com/professionals/practice/pdfs/pdf_1995_thru_1998/1995.45.1012.pdf
and those tests were certainly developed under the rigor of the Scientific Method.
Matt
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