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The bodies of some who are rightly diagnosed as suffering from whole brain death express integrative bodily unity to a fairly high degree.
Death And Catholic Church Teaching
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But, with ventilator support, the bodies of brain dead patients have been shown to undergo respiration at the cellular level
assimilate nutrients
fight infection and foreign bodies
etc.
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Of course a body that is on life support systems that will do the breathing and moving of blood will continue to survive on a celular level. Darn near indefinetely. As long as each cell and organ continues to be replenished with fresh oxygen and nutrients it will continue to survive.
A person who's brain has ceased to function, is still dead. They are simply someone who's body is being forced to continue to survive on the will of machines.
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