Death pluralism: a proposal Díaz Cobacho, Gonzalo Molina Pérez, Alberto Rodríguez Arias Vailhen, David Pluralism Brain death Accommodation Bioethics Religion Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE‑CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. This paper has been funded by the INEDyTO II project PID2020‑118729RB‑I00, by the Dead Bodies project PID2020‑119717GA‑I00 and by the Banc Sabadell foundation. The debate over the determination of death has been raging for more than fifty years. Since then, objections against the diagnosis of brain death from family members of those diagnosed as dead-have been increasing and are causing some countries to take novel steps to accommodate people's beliefs and preferences in the determination of death. This, coupled with criticism by some academics of the brain death criterion, raises some questions about the issues surrounding the determination of death. In this paper, we discuss some of the main approaches to death determination that have been theoretically proposed or currently put into practice and propose a new approach to death determination called "weak pluralism" as a reasonable ethical and political alternative to respect diversity in death determination. 2023-09-28T06:44:36Z 2023-09-28T06:44:36Z 2023-08-02 journal article Díaz-Cobacho, G., Molina-Pérez, A. & Rodríguez-Arias, D. Death pluralism: a proposal. Philos Ethics Humanit Med 18, 10 (2023). [https://doi.org/10.1186/s13010-023-00139-3] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/84694 10.1186/s13010-023-00139-3 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional BMC