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FTA: “When is exactly the time when we die? We may have tapped the door open now to start a discussion about that exact time onset” They must not have been pay
by Someone 1y ago
FTA: “When is exactly the time when we die? We may have tapped the door open now to start a discussion about that exact time onset”
They must not have been paying attention during their studies. That discussion has certainly been going on ever since we managed to restart a human’s heartbeat. Philosophers likely have discussed it for centuries, if not millennia, before that.
Modern medicine definitely doesn’t use “has no heartbeat == is dead”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_death#Medical_declaration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_death#Medical_declaratio... adds “irreversible” to the definition:
“Two categories of legal death are death determined by irreversible cessation of heartbeat (cardiopulmonary death), and death determined by irreversible cessation of functions of the brain (brain death)”
(And, of course, “irreversible” changes as science progresses)
- IshKebab 1y agoAlso the question is incorrect. There isn't an exact time when someone dies.
- jimmaswell 1y agoRelevant: https://youtu.be/ibpdNqrtar0 https://youtu.be/ibpdNqrtar0
- ankitg12 1y agoThanks for sharing the link. It was as scientific as philosophical.
- netdevphoenix 1y agoGiven that we don't really have a precise definition of "alive", it should not be surprising that we are unable to tell the precise moment a person dies.
- lelag 1y agoMiracle Max gave us a clear definition if I recall, you die when you are "all dead", as long as you are mostly dead, you are slightly alive... I'll let myself out now.
- mr_toad 1y ago“ If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark “