Death by Neurological Criteria: Really, Most Sincerely Death

Brain death is just death. It is confusing and unhelpful to refer to someone as brain dead, and just as the term ‘heart dead’ isn’t capturing a useful distinction, neither is ‘brain dead’. As the authors in a Neurology article put it, following The Wizard of Oz, when someone is brain dead they are “really, most sincerely dead.”