When someone is clearly alive we tend to understand.
We also tend to understand when someone is clearly dead and ready to bury. There is no brain function, there is no movement in the body (including no breathing) and there is no flow of blood (the heart is not beating). Other signs of life are gone as well. the body is cold, dry, pale, either stiff with rigor mortis or flaccid.
Dying is a period of time between living and death. … Read the rest
I have already Commented on the question, Are those who fail to pass brain stem function tests really dead? (read blog entry Organ-donation – Are Brain Dead Really Dead?) In this entry I would like to consider another approach to the claim that those who are brain dead are really dead.
The argument accepts the biblical view that when a person is dead then the neurologic (brain), circulatory (heart), and respiratory (Lungs) systems are each dead.
In order to maintain the biblical requirement for death, the argument goes something like this. … Read the rest
This is the first attempt on my blog at describing my beliefs about life
My beliefs about life are Christian. By Christian, I mean, that my beliefs are based on the Holy Bible, that is traditionally used by the Christian church.
One’s beliefs about life or one’s view of reality can be described in terms of three questions which are: What is the nature of reality? What is the nature of knowledge? And what is the nature of morality or right and wrong?… Read the rest
In the posting titled My-Beliefs (click to read the posting), I let you know that my beliefs about life are Christian, that is to say that my beliefs are based on the Holy Bible. I tried to give a basic outline of my beliefs. For those who are interested, another way to learn something about my beliefs about life or about the way that I interact with the Bible is to read some of what I have written about the Bible. … Read the rest