• Homicide is the killing of a human being by another human being.

• Most jurisdictions retain the common law definition of the beginning of life: that life begins when a fetus is born alive. There are exceptions to this definition.

• Most courts now define death as “brain death.” A person is no longer considered alive if he or she is brain dead.

Questions:-

1. For purposes of defining homicide, when does life begin and end? Why?
2. Provide an example of a noncriminal homicide.