Brain death is a nonsense term that is commonly accepted in the medical industry but not understood.
No one knows when exactly death occurs and the medical definition is sleight of hand trickery.
The definition changes country to country. For the UK only the brain stem has to die/give off no signal. Whilst it's true that you can't live without your heart and lungs pumping oxygen into your brain and that this will lead to death, that isn't the same as death itself.
Other countries include both parts of the brain which is somewhat more acceptable but still messy.
You don't need your body at all, only the oxygen and blood that it provides. There's a nerve ending at the base of the brain that if excited keeps the brain on and functions if otherwise brain stem function is gone, providing oxygen and blood is still supplied.
An experiment took some fetuses and cut open their heads, cut away the brain stems and excited the nerves at the base of the brain. They lasted for 24 hours in that condition until the scientists pulled the plug and killed them. Now what sort of development they would have had growing up is hard to debate but for adults, if you did this, you might be able to keep someone's brain active even after conventional 'medical brain death'. it wouldn't be pleasant though and there would be no way to tell if they were still alive in their brain or anyway to communicate with them. But it's possible and shows that the medical terminology is bunk.
More research is needed.
Look into it.
No one knows when exactly death occurs and the medical definition is sleight of hand trickery.
The definition changes country to country. For the UK only the brain stem has to die/give off no signal. Whilst it's true that you can't live without your heart and lungs pumping oxygen into your brain and that this will lead to death, that isn't the same as death itself.
Other countries include both parts of the brain which is somewhat more acceptable but still messy.
You don't need your body at all, only the oxygen and blood that it provides. There's a nerve ending at the base of the brain that if excited keeps the brain on and functions if otherwise brain stem function is gone, providing oxygen and blood is still supplied.
An experiment took some fetuses and cut open their heads, cut away the brain stems and excited the nerves at the base of the brain. They lasted for 24 hours in that condition until the scientists pulled the plug and killed them. Now what sort of development they would have had growing up is hard to debate but for adults, if you did this, you might be able to keep someone's brain active even after conventional 'medical brain death'. it wouldn't be pleasant though and there would be no way to tell if they were still alive in their brain or anyway to communicate with them. But it's possible and shows that the medical terminology is bunk.
More research is needed.
Look into it.
