10-01-2015, 05:15 PM
(10-01-2015, 04:30 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: If a person would die of a heart attack, but a cardiac cath saves their life. The point of death has been moved by technology.
If a drowned child has no pulse, respirations, and brain activity for hours, but is resuscitated back to life; the point of death has been moved by technology.
Traditionally, pulse and respirations were used to determine death. The ability to measure brain activity has changed the definition of death. A person with a pulse, respiration, and brain activity is alive. A person with a pulse, respirations, and no brain activity is dead. How do we measure brain activity? Technology. Again, technology has moved the "point of death" or whatever phrase you used.
No, the point of death is not moved back by technology. Just because someone is prevented from reaching death doesn't mean the point of death has been moved by technology.
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