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In Belfast, whenever someone is thought to be dead, or close to death, a physician is invariably summoned. Only s/he can pronounce whether or not death has truly occurred.
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In a way the Kotas endow society rather than nature with the last word on whether a man has really died. (Mandelbaum, 1976:192)
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Prior, L. (1989). Vocabularies of Causation. In: The Social Organisation of Death. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19918-1_2
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