RELI 2732 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vital Signs, Brain Death, Spirit Possession
1 Jun 2020
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It is hard to say when someone is dead when they are fully intact: living states mimic death, death is a transformation/process, need to be able to tell the difference between who is dead and who is dying. Ex: student who was dead of hypothermia but brought back to life meaning he was not dead, but was in the process of such. Taphephobia - fear of being buried alive: victorian safety coffins built due to this fear of wrongly declaring someone dead. Robert veatch in death and the biological revolution. A complete change in the status of a living entity characterized by the irreversible loss of those characteristics that are essentially significant to it. Veatch"s types of loss that could define death: Irreversible loss of the flow of vital fluids and functions (ex: blood circulation, heartbeat, breathing) Physical definition: death refers to the decay and annihilation of the physical body.
