What about sleep? Consciousness certainly wouldn’t define alive now would it? | Spyke

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Are you technically dead if you hold in your breath?

Like are you dead while you hold your breath I always 🤔 wondered that

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Nah, youre conscious and your heart is still beating.

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@uzumakibarage reply

What about sleep? Consciousness certainly wouldn’t define alive now would it?

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@crazy_kat_lady reply

it's not that being unconscious means being dead, but that you can't be dead while you're still conscious.

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Key part here is the heart is still beating. Kinda hard to sleep with a still heart…

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Theoretically a brain could countinue running without any issue in an external environment if given a blood supply. I've even seen these old Soviet dog experiments try to do that. So no, heart is definitely not the best way to determine if a person (who is really just a brain at the end of the day) is dead.

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