1. 29. Id.
2. 5. National Conference of State Legislatures, “State Genetics Employment Laws,” available at (last visited October 16, 2008).
3. 11. Lovato v. Dist. Court In and For Tenth Judicial Dist., 198 Colo. 419, 433 (1979). See also New York City Health & Hospitals Corp. v. Sulsona, 367 N.Y.S.2d 686, 691 (Sup. Ct. 1975) (finding that brain death, the definition of death consistent with the generally accepted medical practice of doctors, is an acceptable alternative to the common law definition of cardiocirculatory death)
4. In re Welfare of Bowman, 94 Wash.2d 407, 416 (1980) ("brain death is the legal equivalent of death becauseunder current medical science-the capacity for life is irretrievably lost when the entire brain, including the brain stem, has ceased functioning)
5. In re Haymer, 115 Ill.App.3d 349, 355 (App. Ct. 1983) ("person is legally dead if he or she has sustained either (1) irreversible cessation of total brain function, according to usual and customary standards of medical practice, or (2) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, according to usual and customary standards of medical practice").