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In 1968, the Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School, which included ten physicians, a theologian, a lawyer and a historian of science, published a milestone paper defining death as irreversible coma. The report "opened new areas of law, and posed new and different problems for theologist and ethicist ... it has made physicians into lawyers, lawyers into physicians, and both into philosophers".