2007-01-24 06:19:21 · 27 answers · asked by Senthil Kumar.S 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Permanent disruption of self-sustaining biochemical processes of an organic entity.
2007-01-24 06:24:10 · answer #1 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most of these answer focus entirely of bodily death. Perhaps that should be unsurprising in societies as materialistic as most of ours are. I believe, however, that there are other kinds of death - spiritual death, emotional death, deaths of nations and societies, and so on. These all have some things in common.
Death is most of all a readjustment. It is not just a loss of life... in fact, some deaths mark what could best be described as an explosion of new life. And there's a key word in there: new.
So death means an end of one thing, and all the parts of that thing are now consumed by other things or lost altogether. When a nation dies, it's territory is usually taken up by hungry neighbors, or made into children. When a body dies, instead of fighting off and eating other life it become food instead. And when a personality dies, the memories remain but are usually revalued and re-interpreted by the new personality that takes its place.
People experience this kind of death more than they usually suspect. One of the times I died was when my ex left me. The person who had existed before was a very different one from the person who occupied my body afterward. A lot of people also experience a death and rebirth when they find religion as well... even to the extent of calling themselves 'born again'.
When the old is inactive, and those things that made it up are gone, then that is death.
2007-01-26 15:32:08 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is the end of life.
2007-01-24 14:22:17 · answer #3 · answered by Barbara V 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is the end of life cycle of an organism when all the systems of the body stop working.
2007-01-25 09:19:18 · answer #4 · answered by smart 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is the end of the mortal life and the start of a new beginning in Heaven.
2007-01-24 14:26:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Australian law, death is generally defined as either irreversible cessation of circulation of blood in the body of the person or irreversible cessation of all function of the brain of the person.
2007-01-24 14:24:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is the ending of all vital functions or processes in an organism or cell
2007-01-24 14:40:57 · answer #7 · answered by hyder_pillai 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is the cessation of life which occurs when the heart stops beating.
2007-01-24 14:27:57 · answer #8 · answered by Bud's Girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is defind as an irreversible loss of reproduction
2007-01-25 05:18:05 · answer #9 · answered by praveesh bhati 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cessation of independent life functions.
2007-01-24 14:27:14 · answer #10 · answered by fancyname 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋