Which is defined death, when the heart stops beating or is it inactivity in the brain?

Answer 1

when the heart stops beating. A person can be "braindead" but still alive.

Answer 2

Death is defined as no heart beat and no breathing. Inactivity in the brain is called brain death and kept alive on a machine, but, you need a heart beat to do that.

Answer 3

I think death can be defined as state when the heart ceases to beat because the brain stops functioning only when it does not receive oxygen.since oxygen is transported through blood and as the heart pumps blood only when the heart stops the brain stops functioning

Answer 4

Inactivity in the brain would make a lot of people officially dead.
It must be when the heart stops beating.

Answer 5

When the heart stops, it can be reactivated. When the electrical activity of the brain stops, brain death takes place.
Death occurs in two stages, viz (1) somatic, systemic or clinical and (2) cellular or molecular. The term 'death' is commonly employed means somatic death. It is due to complete and irreversible cessation of the vital functions of the brain, heart, and lungs. In somatic death, though life ceases in the body as a whole, it persists in its component parts, viz, the tissues and cells, which respond to chemical, thermal, or electrical stimuli. As for example, the pupil dilates with atropine and constricts with physostigmine. After somatic death, the tissues and cells continue to survive for varying period depending upon their oxygen requirements. When these individual tissues and cells die, it is termed as cellular or molecular death.

Answer 6

DEATH in India is defined as COMLETE CESSATION OF RESPIRATION AND HEART ACTIVITY.
the actual means of death in clinical practice is " BRAIN DEATH--- Means When Brain stops giving signals/ activity" but this has to be checked by EEG (electro encephalogram)
this is certain if heart stops beating then if no assistance is given to patient then in 10 MINUTES OF STOPPING OF BEATS is the limit to complete damage to brain,i.e. BRAIN DEATH
Finally the stoppage of brain acitivity is DEATH

Answer 7

when heart stops beating then every other organ stops work.generally a person is pronounced dead by checking heart beat/pulse. in legal parlance any action done by a person is invalid if he is brain dead.interestingly all the organs of a brain dead persons can be donated for tranplantaion but only eyes of the person whose heart stops working can be useful.

Answer 8

In USA official death is "brain death" -when there is not sufficient electrical activity in the brain to support life- an individual on life support who is brain dead and is removed from that support would die within five-ten minutes.

Answer 9

It is when the heart stops beating. If the brain is stopped and heart is beating, the person is medically alive. If the heart stops, he is dead.

Answer 10

When the heart stops beating permanently.

Answer 11

Clinical death is when there is no brain activity. But Philosophers have been striving to reach the “truth” about death for centuries.