when a person is on life support and declared brain dead, does their spirit leave their body then or before.?

Question

Does their spirit leave at the point their brain dies? or does it leave when the machines are switched off (even though these are just keeping the body functioning?)

Answer 1

It doesn't. There are no spirits. That's just superstition.

When someone is declared brain dead, their brain isn't working. The body is functioning with the aid of machines. The mind is gone.

When your mind stops functioning, you're just plain dead.

Answer 2

There is no "spirit" inside of people. The bible doesn't teach that, that is false doctrine from other religions that has crept into Christianity. In the bible, the word "spirit" often means "breath", so when a verse says something like "his spirit goes out of him", it's talking about his breath, which was given to man by God when he created Adam. Even the nature of your question confirms this. It doesn't make sense that, if we did have a spirit that leaves the body, why can a person remain "alive" although there is no brain activity and no "spirit" doing the thinking? Ecclesiastes 9:5 gives the answer. There is so "spirit" or "soul" that leaves a person. A human being IS a soul, just like the bible says animals are souls (Genesis 1:20, 24. The word is "nephesh", which means "life" or "creature", not an immortal spirit being separate from the body). Do some research- REAL research- don't just go to sources who you know will try to tell you what you already believe. Get a "Strong's Dictionary of Greek and Hebrew", it will help a great deal!

Answer 3

I'm an atheist, and I'm not supposed to believe such things. However, I do believe in souls and spirits, and I think I had an encounter that may answer your question.

My stepfather's mother was in a nursing home dying of cancer. She was brain-dead, on life-support, and it appeared that the end was very near. My neice was spending the summer with me, and is a witness to this encounter.

We were in my bedroom watching TV when we started to feel as if there was a presence in the room with us. We were frightened, and literally scared out of our wits when we were both "touched" by something. This was a literal feeling of having a hand placed on the backs of our necks.

My dog was acting odd also, and being teens we decided to just go to bed and forget about this. That was easier said than done, because only moments after turning out the lights we noticed a white light-about the size of a tennis ball-moving around in the far corner of the room. It didn't have a beam like you would expect from a flashlight, but it did have a glow.

We were terrified. I swear we pulled those covers over our heads and fell unconscious from fright.

The next morning, we told my mother about this. Her only words were, "Well, you know Hazel's dying." Sure enough, Hazel passed away that day.

I am absolutely certain that the light in the corner, and whatever touched us, was Hazel. I feel that her spirit left when her body no longer needed it, even though her heart continued to beat. For whatever reason, I think she came to see us one last time before going on to wherever it is her spirit now resides.

I was an atheist at the time of this encounter, and an atheist I have remained. But it was this incident that convinced me that there is, indeed, an afterlife.

Answer 4

God has said we exist in his heart and that we dwell in his.. From the first moment of life, you can document the heart as being the first to bring life to a human.. In this, all life exists during formation even after the heart begins to beat..

I feel that living on a machine was first to protect life and give it a chance to heal for itself, however, we can not know when death happens when we have interrupted the process of death.. Back when a ventilator was invented, it brought promise to those who would of died sooner..

Now we see that maybe even insurance companies want to put an end to the cost of running and sustaining life when a person is hooked to a ventilator.. But that now is not limited to just a ventilator, but a damaged mind and feeding tube..
I believe that any death by unhooking a ventilator should be a collective decision by the family or next of Kin.. As for a religious stand point, I would say death comes when the heart and brain no longer work without help.. As long as the heart operates on it's own, the spirit is still there within that person..

Answer 5

The person is still living and probably the spirit is still within his body. He was only declared brain dead meaning he could no longer remembers what is going on or could not remember anything in his life or lost his mind or has lost his thinking ab ility.

Ones the spirit will leave his body, he ceases to breath and there, he will be declared dead.
jtm

Answer 6

I have heard or read several reports by people who were clinically dead for at least a few minutes and then came back to life - the most amazing being Ian MacCormack who was stung by a deadly jellyfish. He had a vivid experience of standing in a dark place with horrible voices all around him, trying to feel his body but it somehow wasn't there.....then being zoomed up into the most amazing warmth, love and light, and being given the option of going back into his earthly body or not. He was never the same after that!

His story is at www.aglimpseofeternity.org

Answer 7

The spirit, translated as breath, is going lower back to God who gave it and the physique returns to the Earth. Eccl. 12:7 Their thoghts perish, the be attentive to no longer something. Eccl. 9:5-6 in case you seem at Genesis 2:7, you will locate that God formed guy out of the dirt of the floor and breathed into his nostrils the breath of existence, and guy grew to become a residing SOUL. It says he grew to become a residing soul, no longer that he became given a soul. the belief of an immortal soul got here from paganism and is being taught interior the chuches as we communicate as reality basically as evolution is taught as reality somewhat than a theory even nevertheless there is no reality in it. It takes the physique and the breath or spirit to make a soul. Take the two away and you no longer have a soul. So the soul would not bypass lower back to heaven as maximum will attempt to tell you however the spirit or breath of existence. The bible speaks of death as a nap in many places and that when Jesus comes lower back for His human beings, he will call to them and wake them and take all of them lower back in one team, no longer one by one like a dripping faucet. See a million Thess. 4:sixteen-17. by the way, with the recommendations functioning long gone, the physique does no longer proceed to function with out any existence help. it is complete purely to maintain the oxygen and blood circulating so as that they might harvest areas for transplant. No recommendations functionality, the physique won't functionality on its very own.

Answer 8

My 1st wife was on life support for 304 days before she passed away, Many times we thought she would never wake up, & then she did, But the last 5 days, she was in a coma, So Then I have to say, After the life support came off is when she was dead, If I kept her on life support for 2 years that body of her's will not decay. Now I can hear it from all critics, why did you leave her on life support for 304 days, I did what she ask me to, By the way I am now remarried.

Answer 9

I am pretty certain that when the Brain is dead, the Spirit left as well, and that the Body (being kept alive only artificially) is nothing more than a shell.

Answer 10

I would say it leaves the body when there is no sign of any life eg brain dead. The mind and the brain are two different things.

Answer 11

The human soul ceases to exist at death

Ezek. 18:4; Eccl. 9:10; Ps. 6:5; 146:4; John 11:11-14