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This document summarizes issues around denial of death in contemporary Japanese culture. It discusses how traditional Japanese views of life and death, which saw death as a gradual process rather than an event, still influence attitudes today. This results in a denial of brain death and prolonging the dying process unnecessarily through medical interventions. The document analyzes several cases where families were prosecuted for murder after removing life support from terminally ill patients, as well as the

Author

Jorge Orozco

Language

EN