Kansas Brain Death Statue

In 1970 the Kansas Legislature took the first legal action in an American jurisdiction recognizing the brain death criteria as one determination of death. The statute, proposed by a physician legislator and adopted without substantial debate, provides alternative "definitions" of death--one based upon traditional heart-lung functions and the other upon brain functions. The Kansas Brain Death Statute was the predecessor to the UDDA

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