When does human life end?

[jwoodie]

About 20 seconds after your heart stops. You are still conscious until the O2 stops renders you dead

What about the guillotine?

 

[james bond]

Pig brains kept alive outside body for hours after death

Revival of disembodied organs raises slew of ethical and legal questions about the nature of death and consciousness.

www.nature.com

It was sci-fi/horror in 1962 and today it could be science.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

What about the guillotine?

Interesting

How long does the brain remain conscious after decapitation?

Tales of heads trying to speak after being cut off include Anne Boleyn and Jean-Paul Marat’s killer. Here, Adam Taylor ponders whether there is any truth in the bizarre phenomenon

www.independent.co.uk

 

[alexa]

I think they are far less confident about this than they used to be with all the people who have come back after some time away. Last I heard the belief was that you were around for some time after. I think the Jury is still out.