Does it matter if we call irreversibly comatose patients "dead?" Our guest is Doyen Nguyen, OP, MD, STD. Dr. Nguyen was previously an academic hemato-pathologist and is currently a Catholic moralhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5749302/ theologian and bioethicist. She has authored books and articles both in medicine and in moral theology/bioethics and authored a 600-page monograph that takes a critical look at brain death from a variety of perspectives. LINKS: Nguyen D. https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/559345/defining_death.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y (The New Definition of Death for Organ Donation: A Multidisciplinary Analysis from the Perspective of Christian Ethics). (2018, Amazon link) Nair-Collins, M and Miller, FG. "Do the 'Brain Dead' merely appear to be alive? (in J of Med Ethics, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5749302/ (open access))

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