Comment on He was no friend to the middle class

• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We’re not single called organisms

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Of course not. But the definition of death you gave, doesn’t distinguish between forms of life.

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    • stephan262@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The conversation is about human death. The question is at what point is a human being considered dead. If cellular function is brought into it, then a rotting corpse is teeming with bacterial life.

      You are right that biological functions of the human body can continue well past the point that someone would be broadly considered dead. I just think that a lack of brain function is a good classification of when to consider that someone has died.

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      • Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The conversation is about what makes a “corpse”.
        If the brain dead body still performs the majority of its biological functions, that’s not really a corpse.

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• Magnum@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah the current definition pretty much says a lot of dead stuff together is making one living being

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