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“beyond their own death” I wouldn’t be so quick to judge, they may merely have a different definition of death than you do. In fact, it’s quite likely the lin
by sockaddr 3y ago
“beyond their own death”
I wouldn’t be so quick to judge, they may merely have a different definition of death than you do.
In fact, it’s quite likely the line you’ve drawn for what death means to you would be sacrilegious in a previous time.
It’s all relative.
- charles_f 3y agoYour heart stopped to beat, leave me the f. alone. My definition of death is the definition of death as applied on death certificates. Everything past that is just superstition and belief in supernatural at this point.
- sockaddr 3y agoSo the opinion you hold now based on our incomplete scientific knowledge is the only valid one to have? Anything before and after is invalid?
- frizlab 3y agoIf I’m not mistaken death used to be defined at “the heart stopped beating, (s)he’s dead,” and sometimes people woke up in graves because they were not actually dead… That’s where the expression saved by the bell comes from IIRC. Rich people were able to have a string in their grave which they could pull in order to ring a bell if they woke up in their grave, and somebody would come and dig them up.
- PartiallyTyped 3y agoWhat does that mean for people with mechanical hearts? or their hearts were replaced? or isn't human? or were resuscitated?
- majkinetor 3y agoDeath is political term, not a medical one.