Liz Dzeng
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first heard Oct 2020
last heard Dec 2023
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lived several years, other people who've lived several years.
And so how has that affected this controversy?
And were those cases the impetus for you to think about other ways of conceptualizing this?
And I think what's really interesting about this is that this really didn't become a controversy until we developed the technology, the ICU technology to create mechanical ventilation, dialysis, that sort of thing that keeps people alive.
And I think what's so interesting is that I feel like the ethics of end-of-life technologies hasn't really caught up with our technology development.
And I think that that's just really interesting because whenever we have these new technologies, it changes the way we think about death,
It changes the way we make decisions around it.
And just sort of talking a little bit about my area of research, it also changes the aggressiveness of care that we have at the end and the inability to sort of think about palliative care.
And so, yeah, I just think that's really fascinating.
And I think that what's so fascinating about all of this is that it's not just a medical thing.
It's not just a biological sort of decision, but there's metaphysics, there's morals, there's religion and culture.
And so I was wondering if you could speak a little bit about how those factors come into play in consideration of this particular argument that you're making and in general around issues of brain death.
And this is a very complicated topic, I mean, for people who are experts like you in the area, but also for doctors and then for the general public.
And so actually, I'm just curious, how do we even garner that understanding of what the public opinion is, be that of clinicians or of the general public?
How do you get a sense of even what people want or prefer?
Well, I was just going to say that, again, with mechanical ventilation, though, that's made it much more difficult for us to have that sort of very inherent gut notion that this person is dead.
And I mean, I remember situations in residency, for example, where there was actually a lot of challenge in determining whether or not they were actually apneic because there was all the mechanical ventilation, all the other technologies complicating it.
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