MEDRADSC 3Y03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Rigor Mortis, Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest, Christophe Bouchut
19 Apr 2020
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Lecture #9: defining death decision making for end of life. The manitoba legislature, in its vital statistics act (1975), provided the first statutory definition of death. "for all purposes within the legislative competence of the legislature of manitoba the death of a person place at the time at which irreversible cessation of all that person"s brain function. For all purposes within the jurisdiction of the parliament of canada, a person is dead when an irreversible cessation of all that person"s brain functions has occurred" In all cases, individual needs to be legally determined deceased. Religious or social ceremonies to mark the end of life. Humans have long used criteria and technology to assist in diagnoses of death. Somatic criteria; i. e. presence of decomposition and rigor mortis (oldest in human history)-putrefaction. Link between breath and life is equally as ancient - considered alive. Other influential proponents of criteria for human death. Feathers and candles were often used for breath and life.
