Slightly morbid but interesting. How/when do we find death since death is a process and not a single event. How do doctors define death ?
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/features/20130808-24671.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&u tm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencealert-latestnews+%28ScienceAlert-Latest+Stories%29
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
That reminds me, I'm going to spend next weekend at Bernies.
A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory
RIP ALBI-W3MIV RIP RUSS-W5RB RIP BOB-VK3ZL
If you want a more in-depth approach to this (and a lot of other death-related legal issues), read this:
http://www.amazon.com/Immortality-La.../dp/0300171404
One of those books that I came upon randomly, but I kept reading it because it presents what can be a very weird subject very matter-of-factly.
The takeaway - make a will, or you're fucked.
Jim
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Quibble factor alert: INTENSE.
meh.
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
--Philip K. Dick
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