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Why do doctors consider a person dead when the brain is not working but the heart is still beating?
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∙ 12y ago
This is because being dead is defined as stoppage in the functioning of brain and it is not having any relation with the functioning of heart. If the heart stops beating then there is no supply of oxygen rich blood to the brain and hence the brain dies and henceforth the person is declared dead.
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