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=**Definition:**= The point at which family members and medical personnel treat the deceased person as a corpse. HGD Chapter 19, p. 484

Related to:
Brain Death Clinical Death

Examples:
1. Racial and gender exclusions, persecution, and slavery. 2. When the Holocaust occurred, the soldiers and Hitler treated the Jews as if they were neither human nor equal to themselves. 3. When a person is brain dead, but being kept alive artificially, and the family speaks about them in the past-tense.

Analogies:
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.( Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. (Karl Marx)

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual. (Nelson Mandela)

Mnemonics:
S- Sadly O- Outcasted C- Caused I- Ironically A- Against L- people who don't Look like you.

D- Different people treated E- un-Equally A- Among T- The generations H- HATE.

In the News:
http://science.kennesaw.edu/~echen1/Bioethics/Readings%20and%20slides%20for%20Quarter%201/Quarter%201%20readings/Terri%20Schiavo-Perry%20et%20al.pdf

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp058062

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