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Drug testing on brains hovering between life and death (opens in new tab)

I can see this going the same way as the abortion debate. I know what I, personally, think about this (once I’m dead, I’m dead, and no amount of electrical stimulation is going to reanimate my consciousness) but I think there will be significant pushback from people who have perhaps read a little too much Mary Shelley. Just a day ago, the brain was in a living person. Now, hours after its owner died, it sits on a cart draped in tubes that quiver as they pump liters of blood substitute and oth...

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