[cynwoody]

A biotech company in the US has been granted ethical permission to recruit 20 patients who have been declared clinically dead from a traumatic brain injury, to test whether parts of their central nervous system can be brought back to life.

How does one 'recruit' the 'clinically dead'?

After all, if their 'central nervous system' needs to be brought to back to life, how can it possibly comprehend the concept of consenting to an experimental procedure?

Not that this means the experiment shouldn't be done ... only that it shouldn't be framed in such unctuous ethical nonsense.

[T-Bone Texan]

As an aside, excellent use of the word “unctuous”.

[setha]

Wouldn’t that be done through next of kin?