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Message: [QUOTE="spinoza1111, post: 4069819"] Generally speaking, no. However, my father questioned the Carter era redefinition of "death" as certified by a physician to mean just brain death, preferring that he, the physician, have more leeway when there's no brain activity but other vital signs exist. He accused the medical establishment of wanting to declare poor people prematurely dead in order to harvest their organs yielded up to them for free (like Linux to IBM). He was treated badly by the Chicago medical establishment, perhaps not by that language, but certainly unprofessionally. He was, however, welcomed to speak in Australia on his ethical concerns. American-born doctors were patronizing of him since he was not a physician at a teaching hospital...although he'd been second in his class at Harvard. Foreign-born docs liked him. His critiques of the medical establishment were far more literate than most other doctors could write. [/QUOTE]