Pallis C
J Med Ethics. 1983 Mar;9(1):32-7. doi: 10.1136/jme.9.1.32.
Four main areas generating confusion in discussion on brain death are identified as a) the relation of criteria of death to concepts of death, b) the argument about whether death is an event or a process, c) the inadequate differentiation of different neurological entities having different cardiac prognoses, and d) insufficient awareness of the separate issues of 'determining death' and 'allowing to die'. It is argued that if by death we mean the dissolution of the human 'organism as a whole', then whole-brain death is death. Behavioural patterns, legitimate in the presence of a cadaver, should be legitimate from the time whole-brain death is diagnosed.
在关于脑死亡的讨论中，造成混淆的主要有四个方面：a）死亡标准与死亡概念的关系；b）关于死亡是一个事件还是一个过程的争论；c）对具有不同心脏预后的不同神经学实体的区分不足；d）对“判定死亡”和“允许死亡”这两个不同问题的认识不足。有人认为，如果我们所说的死亡是指人类“作为一个整体的有机体”的解体，那么全脑死亡就是死亡。在尸体存在时合法的行为模式，自诊断出全脑死亡之时起就应该是合法的。
