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The heart is responsible for pumping blood throughout your body; the blood is responsible for carrying oxygen and nutrients to your respective organs. Whenever the heart stops beating your organs start to experience 'ischemia,' deprivation of the blood flow.

Whenever the brain has been deprived of the oxygen an explosion of electro-chemical activity is released as the brain taps into a sort of 'back up,' energy supply called ATP. However, because the brain requires so much fuel this energy can only last about five minutes. In order to conserve the energy, brain cells begin to shut down.

Although the brain cells are not yet dead, they cease functioning. A patient in this condition has not yet reached a state of irreversible brain death but does not have a functioning brain. Vitality can be returned to the individual with advanced resuscitation techniques and technologies, though this patient is clinically dead and does not have a heart beat or functioning brain.

Does such a patient lack personhood or is the potential for sentience + in the near future (should nothing interfere) suffice in determining who does and does not qualify for legal protection?

What Happens When We Die, Sam Parnia (Useful Source for Learning More About Ischemia):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401907113?ie=UTF8&tag=mindbodysymp-20&a...

[you can use the Amazon "Search Inside This Book" feature if you do not want to pay cash.]

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  • @10290gilmore

    "any man who is in hell is there by his own volition and without voliton there could be no hell"

    God created hell for satan not man

    those who follow satan find themselves in hell because they followed him there by their own choice

    its going to sound outlandish but God has in fact through tangible physical contact proved his existence to me

    i have doubted my Gods existence in the past and he responded with irrefutable proof

    however many have not experienced what i have

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  • @prochoicenz As a matter of fact… You’re from New Zealand, aren’t you? For somebody who comes from a country that elected the world’s first transsexual mayor you sure seem intolerant--against anyone who disagrees with you, against the prenatal population, and against gays. To be honest, I do not understand how somebody raised in the twenty-first century can harbor so much hatred and bigotry against so many. Don't suppose you can rationalize your prejudices with an argument?

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