Most countries use brain death as the deciding factor.
Meaning you body can be held alive artificially, but if the brain isn’t working, you are dead, and there is no chance of coming back.
Of course if the heart hasn’t been beating for 5 minutes and you are not kept artificially alive, you are probably considered dead too.
Most countries use brain death as the deciding factor.
Meaning you body can be held alive artificially, but if the brain isn’t working, you are dead, and there is no chance of coming back.
Of course if the heart hasn’t been beating for 5 minutes and you are not kept artificially alive, you are probably considered dead too.
Wondering if ever in the future we’ll be able to reverse brain death…
That would seem extremely unlikely, as a brain that’s been inactive for just a few minutes, if the person is revived, there is heavy brain damage.
Probably not