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Death - Criteria of human death: medical religious and legal | | Death - Criteria of human death: medical religious and legal: Encyclopedia II - Death - Criteria of human death: medical religious and legal | | Human death can be defined by three intrinsically different but overlapping domains: medical, religious, and legal. These different domains and their importance have evolved over time, and opinions vary from person to person. So when talking about death, it is important to specify which domain we are referring to, and to have a general understanding of how each defines death.
There are various ways of defining medical death. Early in Western culture, death was first associated with cessation of the heart, and then later the lungs. Whe ...
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Death - Criteria of human death: medical religious and legal
Human death can be defined by three intrinsically different but overlapping domains: medical, religious, and legal. These different domains and their importance have evolved over time, and opinions vary from person to person. So when talking about death, it is important to specify which domain we are referring to, and to have a general understanding of how each defines death.
There are various ways of defining medical death. Early in Western culture, death was first associated with cessation of the heart, and then later the lungs. When these stopped working, a person was considered dead. It was only later that attention shifted to the brain. One test for brain activity was to pour cold water into one ear and watch for any movement of the eyes. In 1963 the electroencephalograph (EEG) was invented which could pick up and amplify the small electrical voltages from the cerebral cortex of the brain. Tests suggested that when there was zero activity (a "flat" EEG) for 36 hours, a patient could be considered dead. Patients in a persistent vegetative state still have an active brain stem sustaining autonomic activity. Some insist that a person is still medically alive until their brain stem dies, although when the cerebral cortex dies, all ability to think has been irretrievably lost.
Legally, a person can be pronounced dead in three different ways. By far the most common is pronouncement by a medical doctor. The second most common is pronouncement by a coroner or a state medical examiner. The third way a person can be pronounced legally dead is by the courts; after a person has disappeared for some time, the courts will pronounce them dead so that their property can be distributed appropriately. A death certificate is a legal document which states how and when a person died, and who pronounced them dead.
In religious terms, death is believed by some groups to refer to the departure from the body of the soul, or essence.
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