2007-03-11 08:33:16 · 9 answers · asked by me! 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Heart dies first. When heart stops you say someone is dead.
That's why, you might have seen those machines with two computer mouse like thingies connected to a generator, When the patient is dying, the doctor lubricates it with a jelly, presses it on the chest of the patient, scrolls to the right location and passes electric current , making the patient jump up. ( I think they call it defibrillator. Did I make any sense yet? I doubt it)
If brain died first, they would have done it on the head.
Brain dies when blood flow stops, because heart is stopped. So Brain knows it is dying. But heart just stops.
2007-03-11 08:40:39 · answer #1 · answered by shrek 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on how you die. But the heart doesn't really register anything. I would guess that the brain keeps the heart ticking so to speak, so the heart stops when the brain shuts down. But the brain doesn't tend to shut down until it runs out of oxygen, from the blood. However, I would say that brain registers death before the heart does in most cases, especially if you see it coming!
2007-03-12 12:40:28 · answer #2 · answered by CheesyJelly 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The heart is first, the brain at last
2007-03-11 15:54:24 · answer #3 · answered by Cap Samavor 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Heart.
2007-03-11 15:40:39 · answer #4 · answered by suhad sbeih 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The heart
2007-03-11 15:37:56 · answer #5 · answered by scepterium 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your heart would need to stop first to then starve the brain of oxygen so rendering it dead.
2007-03-11 15:41:30 · answer #6 · answered by isleofskye 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The legal definition of death is "brain death" or no electrical activity in the brain sufficient to support life
2007-03-12 09:55:47 · answer #7 · answered by xxx 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"registers?" you mean shuts down? brain.
2007-03-11 15:36:54 · answer #8 · answered by David B 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Neither LOL your dead.
2007-03-11 15:36:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋