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Originally Posted by Praxeas

According to the medical community if the brain is still functioning but the heart is stopped then only until you have exhausted efforts to REVIVE the heart then and only then can a pronouncement of death be made.

They don't. They work to get the heart going again and ONLY when they can not make it work again and the brain has gone too long with out oxygen do they make that declaration

Praxeas,


According to you and the medical community, if you can't restart the heart after it has stopped, only then you're declared dead.

Here's your quote:

only until you have exhausted efforts to REVIVE the heart then and only then can a pronouncement of death be made

So here are two simple questions.

1) If one has a "DO NOT RESUSCITATE" sticker on their driver's license or in their medical file, when are they declared dead?

Remember, you can't implement any effort to restart these people's heart. So efforts to restart the heart can't be exhausted, and according to you, only after you have exhausted efforts to revive the heart, then they're declared dead.


2) If one has a "DO NOT RESUSCITATE" order on their driver's license or medical file, are they committing suicide?

According to you and the medical community they are, due to the fact they can have procedures implemented to restart their heart and they refuse to.