Reexamining Death The Asymptotic Model and a Bounded Zone Definition

Linda L. Emanuel

doi:10.2307/3562159

Reexamining Death The Asymptotic Model and a Bounded Zone Definition

Linda L. Emanuel^*

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Medicine, General Medicine Division

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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

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	27-35
Number of pages	9
Journal	Hastings Center Report
Volume	25
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/3562159
State	Published - 1995

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