Death in criminal law

Traditional death (comprehensive determination theory): refers to cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, and loss of pupillary reflexes.

Brain death: permanent loss of function of the brainstem or the central system above the brainstem. (Irreversible)

Brain death is differentiated from a vegetative state:A vegetative state is one in which the brainstem is in a coma, severely damaged or in a state of sudden depression.

There are three grades of death:

1. Brain death, but there is still a heartbeat

2. Clinical death

3. Biological death, where all the cells are dead after 24 hours after the heart stops beating

Organ Transplantation

Medical Resources

Confucius said, "How can you know how to die without knowing how to live.