Redefining Death as a "Sociological" Event

Maintaining the concept of "death" as a biological, rather than sociological, event is one of the few remaining impediments to exploiting the most weak and vulnerable among as mere natural resources.

If death can be "redefined" -- an ongoing project in bioethics -- to include the end of the subjective concept of being a "person," then the unborn -- supposedly, not yet persons -- and those who through injury or illness have lost the ability to express personhood, can be deemed dead, or perhap...