JBeukema
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- #201
But if you use sentience as a yardstick, we can off all brain dead humans with no legal ramifications, because then they should have no more protections than the flower in your example.
And?
If my brain [or whatever other compnents might become incorporated into and come to constitute the underlying physical system from which my sentient mind arises] no longer functions, then I cease to exist. I, the sentient mind, cease to be. There is no reason beyond the sentimental to keep the other tissues alive. Use what you can for transplants/research and then I simply hope you dispose of my body in a tasteful manner.
As I said, life is neither necessary for sufficient.