Bioethics is an academic discipline that deals with moral issues by drawing upon a variety of ethical norms and principles to analyze and direct healthcare practices. Articulating definitions for philosophically loaded terms that are practical and reliable is an important aspect of bioethical scholarship. Oftentimes, modern medical institutions operate under a single definition of certain loaded terms—e.g., “death.” This establishes systematic biases towards the regulated understanding of the term and in turn asserts a certain worldview upon patients. This paper confronts that issue by examining a policy development process that contains a pluralistic objective and does so within the context of art, death, and personhood.
