On: Storing dead people at -196°C [video]

[charles_f]

Your heart stopped to beat, leave me the f. alone. My definition of death is the definition of death as applied on death certificates.

Everything past that is just superstition and belief in supernatural at this point.

[frizlab → charles_f]

If I’m not mistaken death used to be defined at “the heart stopped beating, (s)he’s dead,” and sometimes people woke up in graves because they were not actually dead… That’s where the expression saved by the bell comes from IIRC. Rich people were able to have a string in their grave which they could pull in order to ring a bell if they woke up in their grave, and somebody would come and dig them up.

[eCa → frizlab]

> saved by the bell

I think/thought that’s a boxing term?

[frizlab → eCa]

Oh yeah it’s possible https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/saved-by-the-bell.html

[PartiallyTyped → charles_f]

What does that mean for people with mechanical hearts? or their hearts were replaced? or isn't human? or were resuscitated?

[sockaddr → charles_f]

So the opinion you hold now based on our incomplete scientific knowledge is the only valid one to have?

Anything before and after is invalid?

[majkinetor → charles_f]

Death is political term, not a medical one.