"Brain dead" man wakes up as surgeons prepare to harvest his organs

At a presentation for a doctorate thesis in Biochemistry there was a critical distinction drawn between cell death and cell ‘inactivity’ inspiring one of the committee members to ask “How are you defining ‘death’?” To which the super stressed student managed: “Uhh… the absence of any living processes.” (tis a tricky thing to define death when living organs are being sought)

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