Legacy Matters

Really Alive and Really Dead

Today we are mainly concerned whether people are still really alive when they are in a persistent vegetative state.

Reborn Indeed

Music Stirred Her Damaged Brain

There's More 'There' There.

One Settlement, Another Judicial Homicide

A hundred years ago, the concern was whether a person was really dead.    The fear of being buried alive was so great that all sorts of methods were used to determine whether a person was dead.  The Athanasius Kircher Society writes about some of them in A Short History of Security Coffins.