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.

Being alive during surgery and knowing that someone ... In a shocking turn of events, a man declared brain dead came back to life moments before doctors were preparing to remove his heart for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wells was incorrectly identified as Beehler, and the hospital contacted Beehler’s sister, Debbie Danielson, to decide whether the “brain dead ... can’t be alive. You’re dead!' ...