Pluralism in the determination of death Díaz Cobacho, Gonzalo Molina Pérez, Alberto Pluralismo Muerte Autonomía Bioética Pluralism Death Autonomy Bioethics Muerte cerebral Brain death Death determination Laws Health policy This work was funded by INEDyTO Project (PID2020-118729RB-I00) funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (It's a Spanish project funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades). The Dead Bodies Project correct formulation is Project ABCDm, funded by Spain’s Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (grant number: PID2020-119717GA-100). Since the neurological criterion of death was established in medical practice in the 1960s, there has been a debate in the academic world about its scientific and philosophical validity, its ethical acceptability, and its political appropriateness. Among the many and varied proposals for revising the criteria for human death, we will focus on those that advocate allowing people to choose their own definition and criteria for death within a range of reasonable or tolerable alternatives. These proposals can be categorized under the rubric of pluralism in the determination of death. In this article, we will outline the main proposals and their rationales and provide a current overview of the state of the controversy. 2024-04-30T06:53:31Z 2024-04-30T06:53:31Z 2024-06 journal article Díaz-Cobacho and Molina-Pérez. Pluralism in the determination of death. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 57:101373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101373 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/91264 10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101373 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Elsevier