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From the Ted Talk by Alice Dreger: Is anatomy destiny?

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So we're seeing this in all srtos of places in human life. One of the places we're seeing it, for example, in our culture, in the United States today, is battles over the beginning of life and the end of life. We have difficult conversations about at what point we deidce a body becomes a human, such that it has a different right than a fetal life. We have very difficult conversations nowadays — probably not out in the open as much as within medicine — about the question of when somebody's dead. In the past, our ancestors never had to struggle so much with this question of when somebody was dead. At most, they'd stick a feheatr on somebody's nose, and if it twitched, they didn't bury them yet. If it stpoped twitching, you bury them. But today, we have a situation where we want to take vtail organs out of beings and give them to other bnegis. And as a cceeounqnse, we have to struggle with this really difficult qetuiosn about who's dead, and this ledas us to a really difficult situation where we don't have such simple categories as we've had before.

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So we're seeing this in all _____ of places in human life. One of the places we're seeing it, for example, in our culture, in the United States today, is battles over the beginning of life and the end of life. We have difficult conversations about at what point we ______ a body becomes a human, such that it has a different right than a fetal life. We have very difficult conversations nowadays — probably not out in the open as much as within medicine — about the question of when somebody's dead. In the past, our ancestors never had to struggle so much with this question of when somebody was dead. At most, they'd stick a _______ on somebody's nose, and if it twitched, they didn't bury them yet. If it _______ twitching, you bury them. But today, we have a situation where we want to take _____ organs out of beings and give them to other ______. And as a ___________, we have to struggle with this really difficult ________ about who's dead, and this _____ us to a really difficult situation where we don't have such simple categories as we've had before.

Solution

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  2. beings
  3. decide
  4. sorts
  5. consequence
  6. stopped
  7. vital
  8. feather
  9. leads

Original Text

So we're seeing this in all sorts of places in human life. One of the places we're seeing it, for example, in our culture, in the United States today, is battles over the beginning of life and the end of life. We have difficult conversations about at what point we decide a body becomes a human, such that it has a different right than a fetal life. We have very difficult conversations nowadays — probably not out in the open as much as within medicine — about the question of when somebody's dead. In the past, our ancestors never had to struggle so much with this question of when somebody was dead. At most, they'd stick a feather on somebody's nose, and if it twitched, they didn't bury them yet. If it stopped twitching, you bury them. But today, we have a situation where we want to take vital organs out of beings and give them to other beings. And as a consequence, we have to struggle with this really difficult question about who's dead, and this leads us to a really difficult situation where we don't have such simple categories as we've had before.

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