We don’t call it “brain death.” We call it “death by brain criteria.” To use the term “brain dead” confuses the public because they ask the question: “If it’s only brain death, what is alive? Are the kidneys alive?” I don’t use the term alive with regard to the kidneys or the skin. The person is in the brain, and virtually everybody in every culture agrees with that. It’s death, just like death by cardiac criteria. Our job is to make sure that people don’t abuse it.
