The implications of this research could redefine the boundary between life and death, help people on the cusp of death, and ...

Being alive during surgery and knowing that someone ... “I feel betrayed by the fact that the people were telling us he was ...

Yale scientists successfully revive cellular activity in deceased pig brains, challenging traditional concepts of death and opening new possibilities.

The study showed the death of brain cells could be halted and ... for research could end up in a "grey area - not alive, but not completely dead". The immediate benefit of this work will be ...

Neuroscientists have identified the physical locations where memories are stored in the brain. But would that enable us to retrieve memories from someone who has died?

The concept of death as a binary state—either 'alive' or 'dead'—is being challenged by ... the irreversible cessation of heart, lung, and brain functions. The invention of CPR in the 1960s ...

The long-time worker was considered brain-dead Tuesday, sources said ... He came in around 5 p.m. [and] that was the last time I saw him alive.” “He’s a good man, he’s quiet, he works ...

In the context of brain death—when the hypothalamus has ... but no one would question whether they were dead or alive. Similarly, severely neurologically devastated patients on ventilators ...

One man died after he was taken off life support when he was misidentified as his hospital roommate at a Vancouver, Wash., ...

Declared brain-dead by doctors, her family fought in court, disputing the death based on religious beliefs. McMath's body continued to grow and develop, leading to a controversial case that ...

Could we ever retrieve memories from the brain of ... they were still alive (which is unlikely), it would be difficult to recreate the original event as experienced by the dead person.