@article{ref1,
title="Death and irreversibility",
journal="Reviews in the neurosciences",
year="2009",
author="Egonsson, Dan",
volume="20",
number="3-4",
pages="275-281",
abstract="The concept of irreversibility plays a central role in most discussions of how to understand and determine human death. This seems to relativize death, since the possibilities of reversal will always depend on circumstance. I discuss the conceptual problems created by this fact, arguing that their seriousness depends on whether we take our conception of death to be a definition or criterion. Relativity is probably not fatal in a definition of death; it might even be desirable in a policy criterion. The concept of permanence is no less philosophically problematic in this context than irreversibility.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0334-1763",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}