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I would argue that the author was not, in fact, dead and the medical notes saying the author was dead were in error. Something is wrong with the definition of d
by amluto 3y ago
I would argue that the author was not, in fact, dead and the medical notes saying the author was dead were in error. Something is wrong with the definition of death if one can become dead and shortly thereafter become not dead again.
There’s a reason that Granny Weatherwax’s sign said “I aten’t dead” and not “I’m dead, but I’ll be back in a jiffy”.
- adamredwoods 3y agoI think people like to play with the idea of surviving "death" where it's almost a hyperbole, rather than saying "the person doing CPR did it correctly and compressed your heart to keep blood moving". Also interesting, there are other forms of CPR: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12540141/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12540141/
- em-bee 3y agothere is a state where someone is technically alive, but our current medical knowledge and technology is not able to keep this person alive and bring them back from that state. so while they are not yet dead, there is no more hope. what happens is that as our knowledge and tech improves, our ability to "revive" someone gets better, so the state where someone is really dead gets pushed out more and more.