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What exactly happens when you die?; Can a doctor explain?
Topic Started: Sep 9 2006, 07:25 AM (116 Views)
kenny
HOLY CARP!!!
This is about physiology, not spirituality.
This is a thread about what medicine knows.

Of course the causes of death vary.
But is death an instant, or a process that takes a few seconds or minutes or hours?

I've heard if a heart is cut out of the body it will beat a little more.
We know people can be revived after "death", within a limited time window.
Deprivation of blood flow (oxygen) to the causes brain damage after a certain time.
But we know people can be kept alive with brain damage.

So the state of the brain, the beating of the heart, or the flow of blood don't really mean death.

Is death some decision the organism makes?
Is it a point of no return after a certain time in an in-between state?

And what exactly IS the physiological sequence of events of death?
Does the heart stop first?
Or is there some trigger from the brain or elsewhere that stops the heart?

And does medicine have some explanation for the stories we hear (about a light) from people who were revived?
Is that location X in the brain that processes light getting low on oxygen or something logical?
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
WHat a cheerful topic for a beautiful Saturday!

You croak, your bowels evacuate and the bateria always present in you begins to eat you.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Jane D'Oh
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Mikhailoh
Sep 9 2006, 12:40 PM
You croak,

Frog in your throat the cause of death?

:leaving:
Pfft.
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JBryan
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I am the grey one
Just a euphemism like "hit the end zone" or "hit the checkout counter".
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


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Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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