Al-Jazeera says he isn't dead.. yet anyway.
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AFP quoted a French medical source as saying on Thursday that Arafat is "brain dead" but is being kept on life support machines while in an irreversible coma.
Technically, Arafat is "not dead", the source told AFP on condition of confidentiality. But there was no hope of him leaving his vegetative state and recovering basic body functions such as breathing without assistance.
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"President Arafat does not have cardiac arrest or heart failure," Dr al-Kurdi said.
"He is still alive. He is not clinically dead. There is no brain death, but his condition is deteriorating. Because there has been no diagnosis, we don't know what's wrong with him."
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