"Brain Dead Means Dead"?
I don`t think we will ever manage to conquer brain death even if we try but even so this can`t stop me creating art, hehe :)
So what do you have to say about this?
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In the UK, legally, brain death equals death. I have performed brain stem tests on many patients on intensive care. To be brain dead your brain stem, which connects the rest of your brain to your spinal cord is dead. Your brain stem controls many reflexes which sustain life. For example it makes you breathe. Without it you would die. Even if sustained by a life support machine, your body shuts down over the next few days.
I do not think we will ever be able to conquer brain death.
the problem is that the not all the brain cells are dead so thats why the body is still aliveand your breathing and your heart is pumping but there are cells that are dead and there trying to come up with ways to rejuvenate those cells i dont know if they will ever get that far, imagine if you could do a barin transplate thyink how cool that would be oh well who knows
wow there is a light topic for the morning. HA
I agree with you I don't know how they would repair critical brain cells, but I'm not a brain surgeon or a scientists either, but it sounds highly unlikely.
I'm not sure what your question is, but clinically speaking... brain dead equates to being dead.
I think at some time in the future they may be able to make people like cyborgs so preventing or postponing brain death, Maybe one day it may even be capable of storing all the info of your brain and brain waves and loading it into a computer/ so you become some kind of mix of the biological and machine like cyborg but the machine also amalgamating with your brain. I think the thing to remember that this stuff is very hard to get your head round now but imagine taking a mobile phone MP3 player back to Tudor times it would just be way beyond what they could understand or putting a man on the moon, so as technological advances are at break neck speed god only knows what we will be able to do in 50 years. I think it will be possible. creepy thought though.
When you are brain dead or in a vegetative state. Like with some sort of head injury, your body can still live on life support. But that's not much of a life. I think that if you get to that stage, there is not much hope in bringing you back to normal.
If you pass away of a heart attack and freeze your body before it's too late. ANd your brain still had proper function when you died..then maybe in the future they could revive you and put your brain in another person's body, frankenstein style. Would be interesting.
If you haven't seen the movie, Vanilla Sky, watch it.
I believe that anything is possible. The more surgeons, doctors, scientists poke and pry at the human brain the better. The more they find out the better we will be by knowing. My belief is that brain dead people should automatically fall into "guinea pig" area for scientists. They will be more beneficial that way. We can learn from them instead of just waiting for them.
i think it doesnt mean that man is completely dead by brain dead. I think that man whose brain is dead can live but cant do anything. because man can live without moving or without doing any activity.
Brain death doesn't mean death (though with as many guidelines and rules as the AMA has put forward, you're close enough); it simply means that you have reached the point of enduring irreversible and permanent damage that will cause all of your necessary body functions (such as breathing, heart beats, etc) to cease unless assisted by a machine. Brain death is typically coined when a person may have valid organs that could be used to save another persons life, yet has no hope of recovering on their own.
The majority of these answers seem to be relatively "philosophical" in their origin and I really need to state that there is no philosophy in declaring a person brain dead. The standard regulations set forward by Harvard Medical (eventually adopted by the AMA) pretty much outline that the patient has to be totally unresponsive to all necessary stimuli that can demonstrate the ability to communicate (so if you can blink your eyes in response to someone, you're not brain dead). You can't move your tongue in any way (even failing a gag test is necessary).
Anyways, that went way off tangent. Brain death could certainly be "alleviated" if we had the ability to tell what neurons are connected specifically, in every person, to what functions of the body. It would be a matter of repairing the broken links, assuming that this is all that is causing the synapse to fail.
no it just means you rely on life support and won't be able to communicate and interact with others, doesnt mean your dead, dead
The real question isn't whether the brain has stopped working, but whether the parts of the brain that make us uniquely human have stopped working.
After all, paramecium are single celled organisms without a brain and are definitely alive. People can survive in a similar way, but it doesn't mean they are still Human in anything other than a strictly technical sense.
If you are brain dead, you should be "put down" (ie, killed) with some form of dignity, not allowed to die of dehydration, which seems to be the medical and legal professions preferred method. Even dogs are treated better.
JBV
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