James L. Bernat

When the deaths appear on the living organism? When the brain stops function and stop supporting the rest of the organs in the body. If the death is not sadden because of the heart stops, but become because of the brain function stop, than it’s requires defining the reason and testing the brain of proof non functions. I am taking the side of James L. Bernat. The reason is he provides such of evidence of the meaning “death” on human body. “In the pretechnological era, physicians and philosophers did not have to consider whether a human being who had lost certain “viral functions” but had retained others was alive, because such cases were technically impossible”. What he wants to say is with the evolution of the new medicine and technology now people with brain dead can the body be kept function with mechanical support and still will not be consider as death.
Even if it is a minimal chance the brain can have function then the patient can be consider alive supported with medications and machines.
The person will be in vegetable state but still alive. Even in this state of living the body will die. There some cases where in vegetable state it does not require breading support for the body and person is leaving for some amount of time. According to Beernet in his six elements “… death must be an event and not a process”. Exactly, a sudden experience, if is a process then it is requires time and support. “Death is the irreversible and permanent loss of the critical functions of the organism as a whole”. If is consider the patient is with irreversible brain death, then it goes under several different test to determinate the brain death, and then the body is under withdraw care and/or including hospice, which means the organs will start failing until all the organs stop working and will become a sudden death of the whole
body.