Usually, breathing stops and then the heart stops shortly after.
Since this is a life-and-death topic, every individual case must be referred to a Rabbi. However, the presumption is that a life should be saved and it takes a high level of evidence to rebut that presumption.
If a feeding tube is inserted to feed the person and they are kept on a ventilator a person can live indefinitely. If the heart is not beating and the lungs not being filled with air death will occur in minutes.
start basic life support
dont have their support and them by their side.
To allow new life to grow and to allow the old and suffering to end their misery.
Obviously, the life insurer will not pay when a patient policy holder is taken off life support. Unless the hospital authority officially signs the death certificate of the patient, the clinical death will not be officially recoginised from insurance point of view.
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The cost for life support can be very high and cost average $8,000 per day. Most time patients that are on life support are also in the intensive care unit.
people are afraid of death. Mass death have changed the ruling because people support it, they will do anything to save their lives.
Just protest in Lundun: We want death! Kill me! Do it to other peepel too! Sorry but it costs your life
It is obviously cheaper to execute a prisoner than to support someone for life in prison; but that isn't how we make decisions that involve life and death in this country.
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