RELI 2732 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Double-Entry Bookkeeping System, Brain Death, Spirit Possession
16 Apr 2017
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All kinds of living states that mimic death. Safety cof ns developed with a bell tied to the hand of the person in cof n in case they woke up. Death is a transformation (process), the process of dying (life to death) is a lot vaguer. Difference between who is dead and who is dying: organ transplants - dead enough so that the doctor can transfer organ to another person. Only clue that something is dead is its physicality: heartbeat, breath. Medical organizations: de ne what is the essence of life. Medical team by harvard: criteria for irreversible coma (legally dead: unreceptivity and unresponsiveness, no movement or breathing, no re exes, flat electroencephalogram (eeg) - no electrical activity in the brain (brain death) Not only objectively dead but subjectively dead, without consciousness. Dying nematode emitting blue light showing the pathway of cellular death. 4 possible types of loss that could de ne death: irreversible loss of:
