When are you 100% dead?

Shrykull · Post by **Shrykull** » 2003-10-26 06:46pm

Yes, dead, totally 100% irrevocably dead, not clinicly, but absolutely. I had thought maybe it's when there is no brain activity at all. At least none that could be detected on an instrument (maybe there would still be some residual brain activity too little to detect)

But can't some frogs survive being frozen and thawed out, during which they're brain activtity is zero.

And if you brain did die, could you be resuscitated if your brain could be jump started like a car battery could be?

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-10-26 06:49pm

You are dead when you experience irreversible loss of all brain activity.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-10-26 06:53pm

You are truly dead when nothing of you remains. IMO.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-10-26 07:11pm

When your brain turns off. Even if it can be restarted, you're not just your thoughts, you're your uninterrupted thoughts. Restarting your brain would be like making a replicated copy -- same thoughts, different entity.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2003-10-26 07:13pm

When your brain-dead for at least one week. Then you can cremate my body.~Jason

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2003-10-26 07:16pm

When I bury an axe in your skull.

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2003-10-26 07:38pm

Never, thanks to the possibility of time travel.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-10-26 07:49pm

A few days after you tell your wife that you were cheating on her, IIRC.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-10-26 10:23pm

My will and mind are as infinite as the internet is filled with porn. I can never die.

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2003-10-26 10:54pm

You can't be confirmed dead unless your brain is totally destroyed.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-10-26 10:55pm

Gil Hamilton wrote:When I bury an axe in your skull.

Obviously someone didn't see Friday The 13th part 3

I think one is dead when the brain is irreversibly damaged and devoid of activity.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-10-26 11:11pm

In my book it's zero brain activity and your dead. But even after that your bodies cells may remain alive for some minutes using the oxygen that's still in your blood stream, that can be dragged on months or even years with artificial life support. However once the brain tissue is out of action it never comes back. So really only a part of you lives.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-10-26 11:13pm

You are dead when the sight of a beautiful woman no longer excites you.

BlkbrryTheGreat · Post by **BlkbrryTheGreat** » 2003-10-26 11:32pm

Darth Wong wrote:You are dead when the sight of a beautiful woman no longer excites you.

A very problematic defination as it does not work for heterosexual women and homosexual men.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2003-10-26 11:32pm

There are three different ways that people can be dead clinacly. They stop breathing. Their heart stops. Their brain activity ceases. Typicaly when you combine all three together death is absolute. However, such people have been revived before, but they exist in a vegitative state unless they were on cold packs prior to resusitation.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-10-26 11:42pm

BlkbrryTheGreat wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:You are dead when the sight of a beautiful woman no longer excites you.
A very problematic defination as it does not work for heterosexual women and homosexual men.

Fine, be nitpicky about it

BlkbrryTheGreat · Post by **BlkbrryTheGreat** » 2003-10-26 11:44pm

Darth Wong wrote:
BlkbrryTheGreat wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:You are dead when the sight of a beautiful woman no longer excites you.
A very problematic defination as it does not work for heterosexual women and homosexual men.
Fine, be nitpicky about it

Well I did leave animals out of it

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2003-10-26 11:51pm

Shrykull wrote:Yes, dead, totally 100% irrevocably dead, not clinicly, but absolutely. I had thought maybe it's when there is no brain activity at all. At least none that could be detected on an instrument (maybe there would still be some residual brain activity too little to detect)

But can't some frogs survive being frozen and thawed out, during which they're brain activtity is zero.

And if you brain did die, could you be resuscitated if your brain could be jump started like a car battery could be?

I'm guessing you're 100% dead when you start to hear dead relatives beckoning.

Or, in most of sd.net's case, when little red men stab you in the ass with pitchforks.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-10-26 11:55pm

Darth Wong wrote:You are dead when the sight of a beautiful woman no longer excites you.

damn diabetes, I'm already dead.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-10-27 12:04am

The Yosemite Bear wrote: damn diabetes, I'm already dead.

*Pushes a loaded automatic shotgun into The Bear's hands*

Look in the bright side, they can't convict a dead guy..

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-10-27 12:23am

lol

insert Crow one liner.

"I say I'm dead & I move"

"Karma's a bitch"

"You can't kill a dead man."

"Officer Smith, this cat belonged to a little old lady who was killed by the same people that killed Shelly and me. Expect kittens in 3 weeks"

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-10-27 12:29am

Sea Skimmer wrote:
The Yosemite Bear wrote: damn diabetes, I'm already dead.
*Pushes a loaded automatic shotgun into The Bear's hands*

Look in the bright side, they can't convict a dead guy..

A life sentence would end quickly I imagine.

BrYaN19kc · Post by **BrYaN19kc** » 2003-10-27 12:31am

You are truly 100 percent dead when you are truly 100 percent dead!

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2003-10-27 01:52am

Don't the chemicals modern undertakers use pretty much make it impossible for you to be revived? If so, I'd say that's pretty much it.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-10-27 02:03am

Alferd Packer wrote:Don't the chemicals modern undertakers use pretty much make it impossible for you to be revived? If so, I'd say that's pretty much it.

They drain out all your blood first, I think that alone is going to make revival rather difficult. Though embalming fluids are toxic IIRC.

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