dotpaw podcast - Death
Birth, Life, Death
Death is the irreversible cessation of the integrated functions that sustain a living organism—primarily the permanent loss of circulatory, respiratory, and brain activity that maintain consciousness and homeostasis.
At death: Most accounts hold that personhood ends with the irreversible loss of the capacities that defined it—especially integrated brain function and the possibility of consciousness.
From the standpoint of the organism and the person it sustained, there is no further chapter.In short, death is not a phase of ongoing existence; it is the boundary beyond which…
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