RELIGST 2M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Brain Death, Organ Donation, Chuukese Language
2 Mar 2020
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The process that results when the heartbeat, respiration, and brain activity cease. Brain death is the irreversible cessation of all functions in the entire brain. Other forms of existence, continous, interactions among dead, living, multiple deaths, rebirth. Websters"- the act of dying; end of life; total cessation. (western concept) Can be dead without meeting requirements in definitions. Trukese micronesia - when you reach 40, you are dead. Socially defined roles unable to meet, you prepare for death and viewed as dead. Hinduism ; circular pattern of life and death. Dying person completes unfinished tasks, family prepares for life. Good death isplanned ; time to prepare; knit their funeral blankers. Bad death ; unexpected like hard attack; no time to say goodbye. Maria catedra conducted fieldwork in spain among the vaqueiros, who are nomadic cattle herders in the northern mountain regions. cattle herders in the northern mountain regions. They distinguish among a good death, a bad death, and a tragic death.
