Brain-dead

The doctors tell you that he is brain-dead.

However, if he is brain-dead, he will never think, speak, or hear again.

The patient was pronounced brain-dead only a few hours ago.

She keeps asking how anyone could ever come up with such brain-dead policies.

When death has targeted you and has decided that your last hour was coming, it comes with no notice and once you're brain-dead, it doesn't offer you a second chance of being brought back to life.

An employee of the mayor's office was declared brain-dead on Sunday morning after she and another woman were struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, the authorities said.

"AI has been brain-dead since the 1970s," said AI guru Marvin Minsky in a recent speech at Boston University. Minsky co-founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1959 with John McCarthy.

"What makes you different from all the other brain-deads that come through here?"