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[-] Steve@communick.news 10 points 1 week ago

If brain death is dead, single cell organisms are dead.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

We’re not single called organisms

[-] Steve@communick.news 8 points 1 week ago

Of course not. But the definition of death you gave, doesn't distinguish between forms of life.

[-] stephan262@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The conversation is about human death. The question is at what point is a human being considered dead. If cellular function is brought into it, then a rotting corpse is teeming with bacterial life.

You are right that biological functions of the human body can continue well past the point that someone would be broadly considered dead. I just think that a lack of brain function is a good classification of when to consider that someone has died.

[-] Steve@communick.news 2 points 1 week ago

The conversation is about what makes a "corpse".
If the brain dead body still performs the majority of its biological functions, that's not really a corpse.

[-] Magnum@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah the current definition pretty much says a lot of dead stuff together is making one living being

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