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Is death an event or a series of events?
So it stands to reason that death is an event in which electrical activity of brain permanently ceases...but I am no expert so I may be wrong.wiki said:Death is defined as cessation of all biological processes....................
..........Today, where a definition of the moment of death is required, doctors and coroners usually turn to "brain death" or "biological death" to define a person as being dead; people are considered dead when the electrical activity in their brain ceases. It is presumed that an end of electrical activity indicates the end of consciousness. However, suspension of consciousness must be permanent, and not transient, as occurs during certain sleep stages, and especially a coma. In the case of sleep, EEGs can easily tell the difference.
Depends on the proximate cause of death.
Disease can linger in the body for years before causing death. An infection can cause death in a matter of days, or even hours. Running head-on into a cement mixer truck or a freight train is pretty much an instantaneous 'event'.
That would be cause of death, what about death itself?