“Is it? If he’s dead, in what sense is he dead?” “In the dead sense,” Trey replied. “Well, his brain may be dead, but his other organs are alive. They can be transplanted.” “But they’re just organs. Organs can be sustained, even grown outside of a body, independent of a body.” “The gash on his neck where the transplant surgeon cuts out a lymph node would heal.” “Those are just cells,” Trey countered. “They’re on automatic pilot. You provide them with blood, they keep going, but there’s nothing meaningful going on.”
