@Germlat,
Germlat wrote:What is death?
It is an illusion.
Germlat wrote:Most medical experts experts would agree death occurs when the brain dies.
That applies to death of a man's vehicle,
like his shoes or his car, when thay have worn out,
not the man himself or herself.
Those experts are mechanics for that vehicle
and thay join in the error of
mistaken identity
that conflates a man with his or her human body.
The mechanic's customer is not the vehicle upon which he is working.
The customer gets inside the vehicle and uses it, while it still works.
Germlat wrote:Although the body can be maintained alive through a series of interventions,
if the brain is no longer viable, a human being is pronounced clinically dead.
Definitionally, human beings have human bodies.
When the latter loses its functionality, then u no longer have a human being,
but his conscious life continues. Whether he has a human body has nothing to do
with whether he remains alive. Let's not confuse the human body with the man.
Germlat wrote:Without a viable central operating unit,
a human being is no longer an entity unto itself but a series of parts.
Without the brain there is no mind.
That is false.
