tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post5983141983914227981..comments2024-03-28T04:08:45.199-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: How could they be in any doubt???Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-86552783615134880752011-04-22T21:15:16.232-05:002011-04-22T21:15:16.232-05:00Didn't the Romans have a law that a body had t...Didn't the Romans have a law that a body had to lay until it actually started visibly decaying before it could be buried?Firehandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-45191961477095730932011-04-22T21:14:23.432-05:002011-04-22T21:14:23.432-05:00I remember when I was a kid, Dad told me that they...I remember when I was a kid, Dad told me that they'd been ordered(Highway Patrol) not to say on the air that someone was dead. I believe the wording was something like "I don't care if his body's in the car and his head's in the ditch, you're not a doctor so you can't say he's dead!"Firehandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-33540549469675641822011-04-22T10:04:08.410-05:002011-04-22T10:04:08.410-05:00TINS - back in the day, one of my mentors was flyi...TINS - back in the day, one of my mentors was flying a very, very sick medical patient from Small Town down to Huge City Hospital. The passenger shuffled off the mortal coil in flight and the nurse so informed the pilot. My mentor asked if she was an MD or Sheriff. "No, but he's dead." The reply? "No, he's not. He'll die on final approach." Because otherwise the pilot would have had to land at an airport within the county where the individual became deceased, or face a mountain of paperwork.<br /><br />Then there was the EMS supervisor two states north of here who insisted that the paramedics try and revive an individual found in a ditch who was very obviously NOT just "pining for the fjords" . . .<br />LittleRed1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-79870577250895558632011-04-22T08:12:40.540-05:002011-04-22T08:12:40.540-05:00Peter
Death is a medical diagnosis. A person is ...Peter<br /><br />Death is a medical diagnosis. A person is not dead unless a qualified medical person says they are dead. In some jurisdictions, the statute will allow non-MDs to make that diagnosis when there is decomposition or fragmentation of the body. Otherwise, the person isn't dead until they are pronounced dead. <br /><br />This isn't as silly as it sounds, there are reported cases of drug overdose or hypothermia where "dead" people have woken up. Ti's common enough that it's enshrined in law.<br /><br />In Victorian times, people were buried alive because of this problem (and techniques weren't so good) and there were various patent methods of sounding the alarm if one woke up underground and needed to be retrieved. Embalming was invented not only to preserve the body, but to make sure the body was, in point of fact, actually dead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-14703682308614729902011-04-22T01:32:19.229-05:002011-04-22T01:32:19.229-05:00Lets vote that lawyer into the oral office in wash...Lets vote that lawyer into the oral office in wash dc for 2012. Couldn't do much worse then the one we already have vacationing some where else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com