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Preferred term
life support systems and life-extending technologies
Definition
- More than other technologies, life support systems and life-extending technologies symbolize the ethos of modern medicine to defy death or at least postpone it. Life support systems provide a partial or total substitution of major bodily organs and functions, while life extension technologies seek to increase one's maximum or average life span by improving and upgrading those functions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Life Support Systems and Life-Extending Technologies]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/life_support_systems_and_life-extending_technologies
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