(NRO) – Maintaining the concept of "death" as a biological, rather than sociological, event is one of the few remaining impediments to exploiting the most weak and vulnerable among as mere natural resources.

If death can be "redefined"–an ongoing project in bioethics–to include the end of the subjective concept of being a "person," then the unborn–supposedly, not yet persons–and those who through injury or illness have lost the ability to express personhood, can be deemed dead, or perhaps better stated, as good as dead. CONTINUE