General Discussion

Brain death IS death under the law

Must the public be informed? Well, mostly yes. Hiding a death from being reported is a felony in most states, that all sort of grows out of the publics interest in knowing a whether murder was committed.

You can't fail to report, and you can't sequester a corpse so it cannot be examined.

It's unclear to me if under that a Brain dead person deemed dead by that event is, de facto a corpse