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Redefining 'Life', the physical and moral

#1   Golden Legacy 

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    Posted 05 October 2008 - 07:08 PM

    Many of us are aware that people often register as organ donors - that they are willing to contribute their brain, heart, liver - when they pass on. That in itself may raise ethical concerns, but at what point does the physical life end, and is keeping a specific organ from dieing included?

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8100301974.html

    Doctors here are pushing for it and challenging what can be counted as 'living' even after someone technically has passed away. What do you guys think?

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      Posted 05 October 2008 - 10:05 PM

      If they're brain dead, get out the smellingsalt.

      Death occurs when the body has completely ceased to function. As in no heartbeat, no digestive functions, etc.

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        Posted 06 October 2008 - 12:02 AM

        Not to go off-topic or anything but monty python did a brilliant sketch about something like this.

        http://nl.youtube.co...h?v=JJnFOTkV214

        But yeah, something like what toasty said, I'll redifine when I get back from school.

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          Posted 06 October 2008 - 09:53 AM

          it would be awesome if you transplanted your brain into another person and you were still the same, essentially meaning when your body decayed, you could just move to another and carry on living.

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            Posted 06 October 2008 - 08:13 PM

            View PostCaael, on Oct 6 2008, 10:53 AM, said:

            it would be awesome if you transplanted your brain into another person and you were still the same, essentially meaning when your body decayed, you could just move to another and carry on living.


            That would definitely be pretty sweet.

            Anyway.......I don't really know what to think of that article.

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              Posted 06 October 2008 - 11:34 PM

              View PostCaael, on Oct 7 2008, 02:53 AM, said:

              it would be awesome if you transplanted your brain into another person and you were still the same, essentially meaning when your body decayed, you could just move to another and carry on living.

              Sure, if it weren't for the assloads of ethical questions that would raise.

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                Posted 06 October 2008 - 11:37 PM

                Not to mention the strangeness of not looking like yourself anymore, and how it would affect the people who know you, and the others who knew your body.

                But it's impossible without creating an artificial brain, so no need to worry about it.

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                  Posted 06 October 2008 - 11:59 PM

                  View PostCaael, on Oct 6 2008, 08:53 AM, said:

                  it would be awesome if you transplanted your brain into another person and you were still the same, essentially meaning when your body decayed, you could just move to another and carry on living.

                  I doubt it would work at all anyway. The nerves in the body wouldn't respond to your brain. I'm probably wrong, this is just off the top of my head.

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                    Posted 07 October 2008 - 12:26 AM

                    i know it wouldnt work, but it would still be cool

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                      Posted 07 October 2008 - 12:33 AM

                      Not really; you'd be living in someone else's corpse. :/

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                        Posted 07 October 2008 - 12:37 AM

                        no you wouldnt. Why would you take a brain from a dead person, and put it in another dead person?

                        you need a healthy body to do it, maaan

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                          Posted 07 October 2008 - 12:39 AM

                          A body which you'd have to kill first.

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                            Posted 07 October 2008 - 12:45 AM

                            It would only be dead for a few minutes ideally, as soon as the origional brain is removed.

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                              Posted 07 October 2008 - 12:55 AM

                              View PostMiley Cyrus, on Oct 6 2008, 10:59 PM, said:

                              I doubt it would work at all anyway. The nerves in the body wouldn't respond to your brain. I'm probably wrong, this is just off the top of my head.


                              There would be problems with the body accepting the brain, just like it would if it was accepting any other organ. Any slight chance that it doesn't accept the brain, and you're suddenly brain dead.

                              Plus, it would take too much time to connect all the nerves and tissue. By the time the procedure was finished, the brain would be dead anyway.

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                                Posted 07 October 2008 - 01:19 AM

                                View PostCaael, on Oct 7 2008, 01:26 AM, said:

                                i know it wouldnt work, but it would still be cool



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