POPE Benedict XVI called on the scientific community today to find a new consensus to define when someone's life ends.
His comments, made during a meeting with a delegation of Catholic scientists and doctors, came two months after a Vatican newspaper published an article questioning whether brain death means the end of life.
While noting "new progress in the determination of the death of a patient", the pope said that "in an area like this there cannot be the slightest hint of arbitrariness".
"Where there is not yet certainty, caution should prevail," the pontiff said, according to a text of his speech released by the Vatican.
I like to know too, especially since it seems possible to bring the dead back to life:
SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.
US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.
Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution.
The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity. But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock.
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