Is it sleep if it was induced...ie a coma, sleeping pills, etc.
How do we know a person does not wake up for just a moment before death?
This is a dumb question, isnt it?!?
2007-06-15 18:25:13 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Cause of death and time of death. If something causes a person to wake and then expire, their chemistry and system are different than if someone simply passes "quietly".
Comas are usually the result of some sort of trauma.
An overdose has yet another set of symptoms.
Also note that it usually takes people a little time to wake up so it would depend on the speed of the issue.
2007-06-15 18:34:04 · answer #1 · answered by davidfb108 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't know for sure if they wake up just before they die. It depends on the cause. If is a stroke or heart attack, there is generally some movement associated with it, and they look like they have moved, or at an awkward position. If they have had heart failure, they tend to just die peacefully.
Not a dumb question. Most people have never experienced this sort of thing.
2007-06-15 19:48:52 · answer #2 · answered by Labsci 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really dumb.
heres a few things you could do.
1. Check for brain activity.
2. sample of brain cells to check if they are alive.
3. Heart Rate (Not 0)
still a few problems here. Death is medically characterized by heart death but not Brain death. So infact people could still be Brain Alive but the heart stopping causes the person to be "Dead".
2007-06-15 19:20:52 · answer #3 · answered by Panda WafflesZilla 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not a dumb question, but an interesting one, and basically, one will never know exactly, because death during sleep usually deals with other causes, just happens to happen during sleep. Usually, aneurisms or hypoxia cause sleep death.
2007-06-15 18:30:10 · answer #4 · answered by Bryant M. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a dumb question. My father died "in his sleep", but my stepmother heard him make a sound just before he died and who's to know whether he was awake for that moment?
2007-06-15 18:34:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't heard of any reports of someone who dies in bed waking up. Are you the gory guy who was asking the weird questions earlier? Watch CSI-Las Vegas.
2007-06-15 18:31:43 · answer #6 · answered by cattbarf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're dead in the morning, and an autopsy shows no sign of overdose, etc.
2007-06-15 18:32:40 · answer #7 · answered by leeceegee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes very, but here it goes
they stop breathing
2007-06-15 18:30:03 · answer #8 · answered by flores337 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋