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Subject: What exactly is "being dead"?

Posted by: Recon Number 54
Life is a journey, if you spend all of it with your nose in your map, you may miss some of the best parts.

An interesting topic, I think. What exactly classifies a person (or something) as dead? Is it the inability to respond or move? Is it the stopping of the heart and lungs? Is a person in a coma actually dead?

Well Flood, what're your thoughts?

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When you hear them raging on their respawn screen.

  • 12.11.2012 10:53 AM PDT
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No activity in the Brain

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Posted by: Sparkfire
When you hear them raging on their respawn screen.

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Lack of brain activity.

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Why So Serious?

"I'm gonna go America all over everybody's asses!"
-Charlie, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

...I wasn't aware the definition of death was unclear in any way.

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Posted by: Sparkfire
When you hear them raging on their respawn screen.


>This

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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Life is a journey, if you spend all of it with your nose in your map, you may miss some of the best parts.


Posted by: Not The Joker
...I wasn't aware the definition of death was unclear in any way.


It truly is, when you think about it. When someone is not moving, is that a classification of death? If they are unable to breathe, is that a classification of death? Yet if their brain still works, they're still alive, right?

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No brain activity.

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"There's a very fine line between not listening, and not caring. I'd like to think that I walk that line every day."


Posted by: lightlamp2
No activity in the Brain

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Posted by: lightlamp2
No activity in the Brain

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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Life is a journey, if you spend all of it with your nose in your map, you may miss some of the best parts.


Posted by: lightlamp2
No activity in the Brain


Yet if their heart still beats, wouldn't they be considered "alive"?

  • 12.11.2012 10:58 AM PDT

Posted by: RustedEdge
When someone is not moving, is that a classification of death?
No...
If they are unable to breathe, is that a classification of death?No...
Yet if their brain still works, they're still alive, right?Yes...

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Posted by: RustedEdge

Posted by: lightlamp2
No activity in the Brain


Yet if their heart still beats, wouldn't they be considered "alive"?
No because your brain has your consciousness. And without that you're dead

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Posted by: RustedEdge

Posted by: lightlamp2
No activity in the Brain


Yet if their heart still beats, wouldn't they be considered "alive"?
Your heart wouldn't beat if your brain didn't tell it do. For a heart to beat by itself, there has to be brain activity. Me ripping open a dead person's chest and squeezing their heart with my cold hands over and over again does not make the corpse alive...

  • 12.11.2012 11:00 AM PDT

Break the windowsill

Pretty sure when someone is considered dead they are "clinically dead"

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Posted by: boomdeyadah
No brain activity.


Waypoint must be long gone.

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Es ist Zeit für einige Gefahr-pay

Asystole.

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Life?
I have the internet and Doctor Who; i don't need a life.


Posted by: Sparkfire
When you hear them raging on their respawn screen.

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I am an unjust ban magnet. Thank you, Qbix89, you really are a rogue moderator. I hope you get disbanded soon.

Unjust bans on the main forums: 10
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Death starts with the cease of heartbeat, and ends with a non-functioning brain.

Hence why people have been revived. The heart could be restarted in time.

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Posted by: NSCLord
Death starts with the cease of heartbeat, and ends with a non-functioning brain.

Hence why people have been revived. The heart could be restarted in time.


It depends, if a person recieves direct trauma to the brain from impact or puncture, they are near instantly dead, but vital functions may continue for a while after. I've personally dissected several animals that had been dead for several days but whose hearts continued to beat even after removal from the body.

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