If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?

[FatAndFaithless]

...the definition I gave is the definition by physicians in the Uniform Determination of Death Act.  And it's not the same as a persistent vegetative state - what the layman might call brain dead.

Were not talking about "laymen"

'Miracle recovery' of teen declared brain dead by four doctors

I'm not sure what a single case is supposed to prove.  In any case, I think the label in getting in the way of the concept here.  The concept of the consciousness existing after the physical activity of the brain has completely ceased is what we're talking about.  Even in that article it said they detected faint brain waves.