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• In the past several decades, defining death has become more complex 4/30/2009 4 Defining Death • In the past several decades, defining death has become more complex • Brain death-the neurological definition, when all electrical activity of the brain has ceased for a specified period – individual whose higher cortical areas have died may continue breathing and have a heartbeat