"The 4 (Harvard) Rules of Death"

Thou shall be totally unresponsive to stimulation, painful or otherwise

Thou shall fail to move for an hour and fail to breathe for 3 minutes after being removed from a ventilator

Thou shall have no reflexes

Thou shall register a flat electroencephalogram, indicating an absence of electrical activity in the cortex of the brain


  ¶ 10/30/2005 05:22:00 PM