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The aim of this entry is to show the complexity and different levels of understanding death. The use of this term shows us that the meaning of death depends on other elusive concepts, like “harm,” “experience of,” and analogous concepts. The entry will not consider clinical or biological death nor the euthanasia dilemma. Also the entry emphasizes the historical background of death as human phenomena and elaborates its ethical implications in the field of bioethics.
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Gomez, J., Tarasco, M. (2015). Death: Meaning of. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_462-1
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