Perhaps we should wait to bury our dead for a few days just to be sure. We'll take turns being by their side, in case they "wake".
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halvar@lemy.lol 2 months agoMakes you wonder whether there is a condition that would make humans think an other human is dead and with that human believing it as well they just get burried. But they aren’t really dead we just can’t tell otherwise.
SolacefromSilence@fedia.io 2 months ago
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Or perhaps, hear me out here, we could dedicate an entire field of science to understanding human biology, and train many people in this subject as professionals. They will be qualified to, among other things, examine a patient and determine objectively that they are deceased with no chance of revival. They can then verbally communicate this fact, or in other words, “pronounce” that the patient is dead.
idk I’m just spitballing here.
halvar@lemy.lol 2 months ago
booooring
Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
in this economy?!
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To this day people are pronounced dead and waking up.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
How do we decide when exactly a subject has transitioned, irreversibly, from the state of living to one of dead?
When they stop responding to my smack talk?
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
That’s why they used to bury people with bell strings
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And get hammered and cry together.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Cotard’s Syndrome is close to that.
halvar@lemy.lol 2 months ago
ooh i like that idea. perhaps i will decide tomorrow im dead actually.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s a scene in Blindsight where they’re getting blasted with unholy amounts of magnetism, fucks with everyone’s head. One chick thinks her leg is dead and is screaming and trying to pull it off. Not sure I count it a horror novel, but it has it’s moments.