Marlise Munoz's Case

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How do you determined if a person is considered dead? Marlise Munoz’s case is about a woman whose brain is dead but, is kept alive by machines and it is against her will and she is pregnant with child. There were cases when people are considered dead when they are in coma. How do we know if a person is dead if a fetus is involved and if it has to follow woman’s wishes?
People who support Marlise on life support says that she has a child in her womb, she is still alive and it does not matter what the women wants because the state law is more important. Fetus is considered a human because it is the first step that a human forms. First, “the fetus should be recognized as a separate person” replied, Joe Pojman because there are some cases that

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