Once dead, does body feel any pain?

Question

When does the CNS die (at the time heart stops of later)?
Without a working CNS, can u feel pain/suffering/anything?

Answer 1

The brain dies within a few minutes of when the heart stops working, because it doesn't get oxygen or glucose). When there's no brain, there's no pain.

Answer 2

Being dead by definition means that the brain is not responsive to stimuli and resuscitation.If it was responsive in anyway you would not be dead. The situation for example with persistent vegetative state is that the person is not dead but unresponsive to normal stimuli.

Therefore being dead you do not feel any pain.

No one who has been dead has ever come alive again( excluding religious belief). A person who has a cardiac arrest and been resuscitated is not properly dead.

Answer 3

with true brain death, you should not be "feeling" anything. however, if your autonomic and spinal cord reflexes are intact, then your body can still respond to painful stimuli appropriately, even though your brain has no conscious perception of the pain.

for instance, your knee jerk reflexes could be intact even if you were brain dead. likewise, an incision could elicit a withdrawl reflex. however, these are just involuntary reflexes and it doesn't mean you're "feeling" anything.

Answer 4

well without any brain activity one would hope that there was no more pain, science says no but the only way we will ever know the truth is when we actually go through it ourselves.

Answer 5

a simple way to understand this is that when you burn your finger or hurt any part of your body, its not that particular body part that hurts but the perception of your brain that something hurts. if there is no perception in the brain of pain there is no pain.

Answer 6

It's pretty simple. No brain, no pain.

Answer 7

yep but the brain can't comprehend what occurred.

Answer 8

dont know

but its a myth that your hair keeps on growing