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2007-06-20 18:10:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Medicine

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It completely depends on your definition of "dead."

Sometimes a person is dead when brain signals stop. Sometimes it is determined by not being able to re-start a heart beat.

The body doesn't all die at once.

The heart can be ready to go waiting for the signal from the brain to beat for minutes. Some parts take hours to cease function (like kidneys or even longer for skin cells) after the blood flow stops.

If your definition of "dead" means no heartbeat then a person can become alive again. If no brain signal means "dead" then every person who comes out of a coma is alive for a second time... Then Yes.

If your definition of "dead" means ALL bodily functions have stopped, then No.

2007-06-20 18:30:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Medically and physiologically speaking, NO. If they really died and all body functions ceased, then there is no way of revival unless some "miracle" happen- which is common in fiction stories and cinema dramas.
For believers, people may live after they die in the so called "life after death."

2007-06-23 11:46:39 · answer #2 · answered by ♥ lani s 7 · 0 0

Dead can mean several things clinically.
When peoples hearts completely stop, they are recorded as being dead, and are often brought back to life. This is fairly common, as this is what happens when people undergoing heart failure recieve defibrillation, which literallys shuts off the heart, for a short period of time.

The real definition of death lies with complete failure of activities of the brain.
The brain is a complex organ, and it often takes a long time for it to stop completely, which is why people seemingly drowned for over 7 minutes can be successfully resuscitated.

When the brain completely fails this is called brain death, and there is no hope of revival.

You might have heard of comatose people being awakened after a long time? Brain death is completely different, and there is no recorded case of anyone being revived from brain death.

2007-06-21 09:23:00 · answer #3 · answered by joy vision 3 · 0 0

In a "circle of life" kind of way... After your dead corpse rots away, it becomes parts of other life forms. Given enough time, all of the material that made up the dead body could be represented in many other live organisms. Most of these would likely be bacteria, but hey, you can't have everything!

2007-06-21 02:53:12 · answer #4 · answered by erikfaraway 3 · 0 0

Yes. There have been recorded cases of people who died and then came back to life in the morgue. When asked how they thought death felt, the ones who died naturally said it was like drifting off to sleep. The ones who attempted suicide said it was horrifyingly painful. Food for thought

2007-06-21 02:58:35 · answer #5 · answered by Jackson A 2 · 0 0

we are energy incarnate,,electricity flows thru u, energy doesnt dissappear it just conducts into another form of energy..so the only question is how do we live after we die- because it is absolute that there is somthing after this,,your body is a shell

2007-06-21 01:32:22 · answer #6 · answered by gtypetroop 2 · 1 0

of course not except when their brain isn't dead yet.
that means that a person can be saved from death if his heart has stopped but his brain is still working.
if the brain dies, there's no hope in restoring him back.

2007-06-21 02:42:20 · answer #7 · answered by marina i 2 · 0 0

well if they "live again" then they never died just cuz the heart stops doesnt mean the soul left.

2007-06-21 01:15:30 · answer #8 · answered by ricky 1 · 0 0

So you don't want to go to heaven ?

2007-06-21 22:05:52 · answer #9 · answered by kenneth h 6 · 0 0

if they reincarnate

2007-06-21 02:35:27 · answer #10 · answered by dark bubble 7 · 0 1

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