Nice try

Post #315,728 by crazy 10/16/09 10:55:15 AM Reply	Nice try No slippery slope please. The exact decision process if possible. Including viewpoints across the board. For this situation, not any others.
Post #315,731 by boxley 10/16/09 11:12:58 AM Reply	okay, keep him hooked up until he passes by himself if he has not hinted, given, wrote down any wishes then his parts are his not yours or the State. Cannibalization doesnt begin until after death in most polite civilizations. I have my wishes written down with a do not recessitate or feed order just water and no organ harvesting but thats just me.
Post #315,733 by crazy 10/16/09 11:53:15 AM Reply	Hmm Are they allowed to harvest organs (or other parts) after death?
Post #315,747 by boxley 10/16/09 4:30:55 PM Reply	well, some places make soup corneas skin bone etc can be used post mortem but most soft tissue like innard etc dont do well thanx, bill
Post #315,749 by pwhysall 10/16/09 6:54:50 PM Reply	Define "death" Ref: beating heart cadavers.
Post #315,763 by boxley 10/17/09 11:06:05 AM Reply	Re: Define "death" where you dont get sued for sending them to the morgue
Post #315,767 by crazy 10/17/09 2:06:09 PM Reply	It's the killer, isn't it? I didn't want to know. I was asking Box for his opinion based in that magical line in the sand and didn't want that focus. Yet. Ok Box, from your perspective, various pieces of the body are up for grabs at that magical moment, and none of them are before then. Since time is of these essence, and the previous answer means nothing in the context of when the decision must be made, please give a bit more. What is death? I'm going to run with some assumptions I have of you. You believe in some type of afterlife, you believe in the concept of the spirit (not going to define that one) leaving the body, and going somewhere. Right? You also believe in the possibility of people in near death experiences leaving the body, looking down, watching, etc. Right? At the moment the person (note that the person is no longer defined as the body, but the leaving spirit), is that person dead? Not "near dead", but dead. Or is it some other aspect?
Post #315,773 by boxley 10/17/09 5:10:31 PM Reply	death is not defined by the dead, but the living I remember I had a conversation with a friend about taking a bad stroke and being semi vegetative but with a non working body, I would prefer a pillow to the face, my bud wanted the veg fed and cared for until decomposition was well set in. Its not easily defineable,

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