From: I Sent: Friday, November 02, 2018 12:11 PM To: Walter Block <wblock@loyno.edu> Subject: a conundrum Dear Walter, how are you? Consider the following quandary: imagine a libertarian society in which some patient is brain-dead but his family decides to keep him under ventlilator, having stipulated with a doctor that the patient should be thus kept until he rots. Notice, there is no mention of the problem whether the patient is NOW dead or alive. They deliberately abstract from predicating death to the patient. His brain stem may be even be dead (he would not breathe spontaneously) but he is … Continue reading Can You Murder A Brain Dead Person? Yes.