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In 1968, the World Medical Assembly set

guidelines for doctors to declare death:

• No response to any external stimuli.
SIGNS OF • No muscle movement, especially

DEATH breathing

• No reflexes

• Flat encephalogram (brain wave)

• No heartbeat

• No blood pressure / inaudible at all