The death penalty can only be imposed on defendants convicted of capital offenses – such as murder, treason, genocide, or the killing or kidnapping of a Congressman, the President, or a Supreme Court justice. Unlike other punishments, a jury must decide whether to impose the death penalty.
The forensic pathologist is a subspecialist in pathology whose area of special competence is the examination of persons who die suddenly, unexpectedly or violently. The forensic pathologist is an expert in determining cause and manner of death.
Executor. This is the person who is named in a Will to deal with the estate.
The Uniform Declaration of Death Act (1980) declares that death has occurred when an in individual has sustained either 1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory function or 2) irreversible cessation of all function of the entire brain including the brain stem.
The manner of death is determined by the medical examiner. Natural is defined as death caused solely by disease or natural process.
Sudden nocturnal death, while relatively uncommon, can occur as a result of a variety of factors, including stroke, seizure, sedative overdose, and, most frequently, sudden cardiac arrest, physicians say.
Although death has historically been medically defined as the moment when the heart irreversibly stops beating, recent studies have suggested brain activity in many animals and humans can continue for seconds to hours.
An unexpected discovery made by an international team, examining the results of an EEG on an elderly patient, who died suddenly of a heart attack while the test was in progress.
This document defines death as either irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or irreversible halting of brain function. Quite simply, when your brain is dead, you are dead. This definition is, by and large, in use throughout most of the advanced world.
Generally, the deceased person's estate is responsible for paying any unpaid debts. When a person dies, their assets pass to their estate. If there is no money or property left, then the debt generally will not be paid. Generally, no one else is required to pay the debts of someone who died.
When someone is dying, their heartbeat and blood circulation slow down. The brain and organs receive less oxygen than they need and so work less well. In the days before death, people often begin to lose control of their breathing. It's common for people to be very calm in the hours before they die.
The fear of dying is quite common, and most people feel that death is scary to varying degrees. To what extent that fear occurs and what it pertains to specifically varies from one person to another. While some fear is healthy because it makes us more cautious, some people may also have an unhealthy fear of dying.
When the heart stops pumping blood, it's called cardiac arrest. If immediate action isn't taken to resuscitate the heart, the person will die. Around 300,000 to 400,000 people experience cardiac arrest every year. It's possible to survive cardiac arrest without lasting damage only if treatment is quickly delivered.
If you owned the account jointly with another person or named a beneficiary, the account will pass to that person. This is true even if you did not have a will. Bank accounts and certain other assets with joint owners or designated beneficiaries are transferred outside of the probate process.
For the first few minutes of the postmortem period, brain cells may survive. The heart can keep beating without its blood supply. A healthy liver continues breaking down alcohol. And if a technician strikes your thigh above the kneecap, your leg likely kicks, just as it did at your last reflex test with a physician.
Agonal breathing or agonal gasps are the last reflexes of the dying brain. They are generally viewed as a sign of death, and can happen after the heart has stopped beating.
Within hours, blood is pulled downwards, causing splotches on the skin. Because the heart is no longer pumping blood around the body, it starts being pulled down by gravity. As the blood pools, patches appear on the skin within 30 minutes of death.
Lung - 4 to 6 hours. Heart - 4 hours. Liver - 24 hours.
US researchers say that as we die, our brainwaves show up in the same way that they do during dreaming, recalling memories or meditating, and our brains remain active and coordinated during and even after we pass.
With no functioning brain, the body shuts down. The thermostat goes out of control, the kidneys shut down, the liver fails, everything goes.
While larger animals like sharks or hippos may seem a likely culprit, the animal that kills the most humans per year is actually the mosquito.
But both Hitler and Stalin were outdone by Mao Zedong. From 1958 to 1962, his Great Leap Forward policy led to the deaths of up to 45 million people—easily making it the biggest episode of mass murder ever recorded.