What is considered to be death

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>>8766629

death does not exist. Consciousness is not a result of the matter.

>>8766629
dead for good is when the micro biome or environment renders the macro person irretrievably dead. How long that takes depends upon conditions and level of scientific advancement.

>>8766629
There are various definitions according to how you want it defined. The legal definition is when you're declared dead by a physician, and the one I know most about compared to how long organs can be harvested etc.

>Legally dead
There's a saying "a person isn't dead until they're warm and dead", coming from the many cases of patients suffering severe hypothermia and apparent loss of life, cardiac arrest etc, being revivable for up to hours after the actual fact. It's not failsafe, but it's common enough that if you're found "dead" in an avalanche, at sea etc, it's advisable to keep trying resuscitation basically until you've warmed up completely.

>Clinically dead
when your heart stops, for long enough periods of time, the brain stops getting supplied with fresh oxygen, and hypoxia invariably leads to brain damage after only minutes. Four minutes without oxygen, and you're basically a meat potato. Of course, due to other factors like temperature, saturation of the blood still available to the brain etc, this number varies, but in room temperature, 4 minutes is as a rule of thumb, a cutoff.

>organ death
organs can be harvested from certain corpses under certain conditions. Usually high energy trauma victims and similar, because if the specific organ isn't damaged in the accident, there's a high chance it's remained oxygenated throughout the efforts to revive you, and is therefore "fresh". As soon as it loses oxygen, a warm organ starts to die, because the cells it is made up of require it. They are less sensitive than the brain, however, and can be harvested up to 90 minutes after circulatory death (when the heart stops).

It's possible to be brain dead but have a working heart, but without circulation, the brain does not go on.

Life is simply a number of chemical reactions that keep a system away from an entropy minimum, it's not something special.

>>8766706
Oh, so you should have no objection to having your brain removed.

Cool question, OP.

I've always been curious how long a human can be dead for before being revived. I wonder if there was a way to get hooked up to a machine that kills you, keeps you dead for an hour, and then revives you somehow. It's science fiction but it sounds cool.

>>8766822

Every thing in our universe is literally matter BUT only a very very very very very (...) very small part of that matter generate consciousness.

That make no sense.

>>8766837
>Every thing in our universe is literally matter
No.

>BUT only a very small part of that matter generate consciousness.
Yes, same as life itself.

>>8766629
>brain activity (delta waves) for 10 minutes after the heart stopped beating
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28231862

>>8766791
>(((brain death)))

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/patient-wakes-doctors-remove-organs/story?id=19609438
>Give emergency sedatives to "stop seizures"
>Declare brain death
>Quick, harvest the goyim's organs!
>"BRAIN DEAD" woman wakes up just before being sawed open

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2106809/Dead-man-wakes-as-transplant-surgeons-prepare-to-remove-his-organs.html
>Another "BRAIN DEAD" man, 45, wakes up the night before the donation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/23/texas-man-says-he-went-to-jail-for-swat-standoff-that-saved-sons-life/
>Son has seizure, gets declared brain dead
>Organ donation organization notified as the doctors order him taken off life support
>Dad has seen these seizures before. Knows he has to buy some time for his son to wake up. But the doctors won't listen so he gets his gun and takes over the hospital room
>Armed standoff with the SWAT team for hours
After a few hours his son wakes up.
Of course he gets arrested in the end, but gets pardoned much to the (((HMO)))'s consternation ("are you legitimizing attempts to resist our noble $$$organ donation$$$ efforts?")

>>8766871
>Death is a jewish conspiracy

A tad to much this time, dont you think

>>8766892
>conflating (((brain death))) with actual death
Good goy.

>>8766897
And what is a good definition of death proper, without brackets

>>8766898
As my first link (to the NIH study) showed, we don't necessarily have an airtight definition.

But I can tell you what ISN'T a good definition:

"Brain death" induced by sedatives / anti-seizure medications for the purpose of justifying organ theft.

Doesn't seem like much of a stretch to say that if a person ever wakes up after being declared "dead", you might need to consider a more rigorous definition.