Some people say you still live for a couple of seconds after your heart stopped beating.
Does anyone agree?
Well, I do. It's possible that you still live after your heart stopped beating isn't it?
Look, when your "dead", you can't feel anything anymore. But when your heart stopped beating, there is still much fresh blood in your body. So why dieing precisly when your heart stops beating?
I personnaly think that it takes about 30 sec before you die. What you feel in that time? Nothing? Who knows..
Post what you think. And how long it takes before someone "dies'' after his heart stopped beating. And what do you feel in that time?
When your heart stops beating, you live until your brain dies from lack of oxygen (which doesn't take long).
When they used to execute people by beheading, they would (in some cultures) hold up the head afterwards, and it would still be alive, looking around and moving it's mouth trying to speak, then it would die.
For up to about 4 minutes - until lack of oxygen causes the brain to shut down.
In some cases, where sudden and extreme chilling has been involved, casualties have been successfully revived several hours after the incident with little or no brain damage. Quite often this sort of incident involves a fall into icy water. Fast chilling dramatically slows down the decay of dying brain tissue.
People can actually live without hearts for a long time, with a mechanical heart, but really is this meant to be literal? Or is it more of a do you die with your body question?
Legally I think you can be pronounced dead when your heartbeat flatlines, but you are not truely dead untill brain activity ceases. There are many stories (including my friend's grandma) about people being brought back from the dead. After suffering a stroke, my friend's grandmother's heart stopped. She was pronounced dead, but was revived a few minutes later.
On the Weather Channel I heard an extraordinary story. A child fell through the ice, and was under water in the freezing ice for ~30 minutes. His body temperature was 78 degrees when he got to the hospital and his heart had stopped beating. He was revived after 3 hours of stablizing proceedures. It really changed the way hypothermia chases were treated. It turns out that the freezing water had slowed his organs enough to prolong his life. Most doctors agree that it was "just in the knick of time" ... any longer and the already minute chance the boy had of living would most likely have vanished. Simply astonishing.
I think it was when the frontal parts (our latest developed part of the brain) of your brain has stopped working, you are counted as dead even though if some inner intinctparts still are alive. According to this you can be alive after your heart has stopped.
The medical science declears that when somebody is dead as brain dead. Because the brains will interact as much possible to stimulate the body to restart the system.
But i am not specialist in this level of medical science.
There are results that bodies still can sendout live because of nerve interactions. So i proofs again that dead means brain dead.
Yeah, scientifically, there is a short period after one's heart stops beating that life continues. And for the reason that everyone's stating - death is related to the brain mainly.
