How to Know if Youre Dead

Chapter 8:How to Know if Youre DeadMadzid Coric & Jzon LivingstonPeriod 5

Question 3How long does a personality adhere to a cadaver? Is it gone when the brain dies, or is it a quality that adheres as long as there are people to take care of the body? What would be the consequence of treating cadavers like raw material? Would we still be civilized if we treated cadavers as meat or matter?What is a Beating Heart Cadaver?Human body that though dead in all medical and legal definitions is attached to a medical ventilator and retains cardio-pulmonary functions. This will keep the organs of the dead body, including the heart, functioning and alive for a few days.Brain dead but kept alive using artificial respiration in order to use the cadavers organsHow we harvest organs from donors

PersonalityPersonality:The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character.Includes physical features (i.e. crows feet, raised eyebrows)H doesnt look, smell, or feel dead

Treatment of Cadavers in American SocietyIn most cases very professional in the medical fieldStill seen as humans and giving respect is expectedWould not be humane in our society to meddle with a corpse unless for scientific or medical uses (i.e. desecration of a grave)Cannibalism unacceptable worldwide and considered inhumane

DoctorsDuncan Macdougall

Robert Whytt

Hypothesized that the soul did not have a set resting place, but was infused throughout in the blood

Hypothesized that the soul had weight and could be determined once passed from the bodyLocation of the SoulMost believe the soul resides in the heart and leaves the body once the heart stops beating (also theories that say soul living in the liver and the brain, but there aren't any valid answers yet.Without the brain, the heart can still beatWould this mean that beating heart cadavers are still alive?Thomas Edison believed that the soul sat through your entire bodyThe early anatomists werent able to shed much light on the issue, as the soul wasnt something you could see or set your scalpel to.Legal and Medical CommunityCase of Andrew Lyons soon allowed legislation to make brain death the legal definition of deathBody is paralyzed, but the person is still alive and has control over the mindCadavers as Raw MaterialDefibrillators used to keep heart beating. Treated delicately like a human, but not the same mindsetCadavers are raw materials because there is no one in possession of themNo moral consequences because of objectificationMay lead to us thinking other things are okCivilized or NotMentally we must, physically we dontNecessary to do soIf enough people accept it, then it becomes civilized.

AnacoluthonColombo returned from his lab-which in all likelihood was not equipped with a microscope, as the device had barely been invented.pg.177SimileFrom the length of them, I had imagined surgeons doing their business, taking things out and putting them in. through an opening eight or nine inches long, like a woman poking around for glasses at the bottom of her purse pg.169It is wheeled by a single person, calmly and with little notice, like a shopping cart.pg.167AuxesisThe human liver is a boss-looking organ. Its glossy, aerodynamic, Olympian.pg.178CitationsRoach, Mary. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2003. Print.2003. Photograph. Donate Life AmericaWeb. 4 Nov 2013. .