PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Church Attendance, Permadeath, Brain Death
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Phases of dying: agonal phase, suffering in first moments in which body can no longer support life (respiratory distress, clinical death, heart, breathing, brain stopped, not technically dead due to chance of resuscitation, mortality, permanent death. Defining death: brain death, all activity in brain/brain stem stopped, irreversible, persistent vegetative state, activity in cerebral cortex stopped, brain stem still active. Other parts of body still functioning, but no higher level thought processes; unlikely to recover: **thought defines living; death = end of higher level thought; can be alive, but thought of as actively dead (ie. vegetative) Concept of death: permanence, universal: everything that"s alive dies, inevitability, cessation, end of functioning, applicability, death only applies to living things, causation, has a cause, whether biological or being hit by a car. If someone in their family has died, they discuss it with family members, and understand it earlier: religious teachings.
