PHL382H1 Final: PHL382 Final Exam notes.docx
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Death as an event vs. a process. Process definition, though intuitive is problematic because we could then being considering people dead even when they re not (no single point of telling when someone is dead) Bernat, culver, and gert: death is a process beginning with the failure of certain organ systems during life (not very practical otherwise hospitals would be full of decomposing bodies) B, c and g look a the body as an integration of all or most subsystems. Death as the permanent cessation of functioning of the organism as a whole . R. veatch: death as a complete change in the status of a living entity characterized by the irreversible loss of those characteristics that are essentially significant to it . All the definitions of death have a notion of complete and irreversible change and the fundamental nature of an organism in common. We understand death as a damaging and irreversible change to a living organism.