REEXAMINING DEATH - THE ASYMPTOTIC MODEL AND A BOUNDED ZONE DEFINITION

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EMANUEL, LL
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[1] Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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10.2307/3562159
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The traditional Western understanding of life and death as a strict dichotomy is challenged by a more descriptively accurate model of life's progressive cessation. Dying can be defined by a bounded zone of residual states of life that fits better with moral intuition and more sensitively guides action toward the dying. 1995 The Hastings Center
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