Ebook: The undead: organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating heart cadavers: how medicine is blurring the line between life and death

Death is here to stay -- A history of death -- The brain-death revolution -- The new undead -- Netherworlds -- The near-death experience -- Postmodern death -- The moment of death and the search for self.;Science writer Dick Teresi examines how death is determined by the medical community and explores organ trafficking, brain death, and near-death experiences.