This article takes issue with your contention, citing several sources.....
http://www.all.org/nav/index/heading/OQ/cat/MjA2/id/MjU4Mg/
I don’t know if there’s anything to it or not...but I’m not willing to take any chances!
Militant
Actually it doesn’t at all, for one if there were a case where someone was properly certified as brain dead as I mentioned earlier you think the author (who is not mentioned) would have mentioned it?
This author is basically saying that a person can still be alive without a functional brain. I don’t know about you but personhood to me is a lot more then then simple cellular function of my big toe. I’m sure one day we’ll be able to keep a body alive when the head has been completely removed, doesn’t mean that person is alive and I don’t see a difference when it comes to brain death.