Three criteria for determining death

Legal analysis: Generally speaking, death in the medical and legal sense refers to the cessation of heartbeat and breathing. Therefore, under normal circumstances, checking for death is mainly judged by visual observation and checking with a stethoscope, etc. to see if the breathing and heartbeat have stopped and whether the pupils are dilated and fixed bilaterally, without specializing in electrocardiograms and electroencephalograms.

Legal basis: The Chinese People's **** and National Code Article 1121 Succession begins at the time of the death of the decedent. If several persons who are related to each other by inheritance die in the same event and it is difficult to determine the time of death, it is presumed that the person who has no other heirs dies first. If there are other heirs with different seniority, it is presumed that the eldest died first. If they have the same seniority, it is presumed that they died at the same time, and they do not inherit from each other.