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“Inheritance laws?” Young-Joon asked.
“Yes. For example, let’s say a nouveau riche father became brain-dead from a car accident shortly after adopting a son. The son’s inheritance rights won’t kick in until a few days later because the adoption process hasn’t been fully processed by the lawyer yet, but the biological son wants to kill his father as quickly as possible because he doesn’t want to share the inheritance. Think about that,” Yang Hye-Sook said.
“...”
“Both the adopted son, who wants to delay the declaration by a few days on life support and the biological son, who wants to declare his father’s death as fast as possible, could consider a brain-death clinical trial.
“The adopted son would have justification to stop the declaration of death as a clinical trial was going on. On the other hand, the biological son who wants death could use the trial to induce cardiopulmonary arrest.
“Once cardiopulmonary arrest occurs, it’s over; there is no room for doctors to adjust the declaration of death by even a few days. That’s why the patient’s own consent is more important than the consent of their proxy.”
“Ha… What kind of nonsense is that…”
“Something more dramatic...
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