The Term DeathThe Term DeathDeathTheoretically, the term ‘death’ means the end of something or someone. It generally defines termination of a life, being or existence. Someone is considered to be dead if he/she cannot perform any task while something is dead it cannot do what it used to do. However, these definitions are understood differently in various disciplines.
In nursing, death occurs when the human body organs cease to function. It occurs when the main organs such as the heart and lungs stop function and paralyzes other organs. A dead body is immobile and unresponsive to any effect (Pollak et al., 1990).
In sociology, the term social death defines a situation of not being viewed as human by the society. Social death is exercised by racial and ethical segregation, persecuting and enslaving. The government may a certain group of people from the society; these may be criminals and prostitutes. In the period of renaissance, an individual be rendered socially dead if he/she changed identity. In slavery, social death occurs from the point the slave becomes powerless. The captured slaves were not killed; the physical death seemed prolonged, but they died psychologically. The slaves would lose their identities by changing their names; they lost freedom and depended completely on their superiors. The psychological death is expressed through segregation from the society and the slaves lost their heritage (Seale 1998). Their social bonds were cut. They were considered not to be completely human as they depended on their masters and did not have power or control over their own lives. The slaves were treated with violence and could be whipped and injured. This physical torture killed the slaves psychologically by creating a feeling of self-blame and acknowledge being powerless.
In economics, death exemplifies the end of a business. Several circumstances may be caused by several factors such as incurring losses, theft of business property and accidents such as fire breakouts. The death of a business signifies non-continuity of the business. When fire burns up a business set-up and everything is damaged, the business cannot continue and is considered to have died. A business can also cease to operate if its mains tools have been stolen or if it’s constantly running losses.
According to philosophy, death is a condition which someone’s body cannot do essential activities. The body is viewed to act effectively when it reveals appropriate feelings and thoughts. Dead bodies cannot reveal an association with mental states. The bodies do not show any sign of being able to make decisions, do not have emotions or the normal senses of a human being. In philosophy, people tend to think of life after the physical death. They question if end of a physical life also means end of mental life. However, no empirical tests have been conducted to affirm whether mental activity continues after physical death. Generally, death is considered to be bodily non-functioning which is permanent and cannot be reversed.
The notion of “dead bodies” is often used to refer to the body that is not at all physically present in the body.
The notion of bodies in a sense is also used because they are dead
A “dead body” is the body with a distinct lack of consciousness. This is because of the presence of another body in another body that possesses a consciousness which is of no particular identity with the body of the other (e.g., without the “other”). Some people choose to live the life of the dead body because they are not entirely satisfied with the life of a living body, which is a result of the absence of other bodies.
An example, where a person makes a choice for life of living or dead, is when he is unable to go to school or is sick or is unable to perform many useful functions (e.g., he cannot work while the school is being run, he cannot work when he is not physically present, he has lost his mother; a family member is killed, or he is raped because a girl is raped). The idea that there can be an “overall” absence of other bodies in a person’s life is false.
The concept of afterlife, an individual’s immortality through immortality, is sometimes called the “death of the soul” because of our belief in two different afterlifes which in turn make human life more precious than in any previous age which would have allowed them a separate life. Death, as such, is considered morally wrong but is also considered “good enough.” While immortality was not yet attainable by a people because it was impossible for them to become human, the idea that any person who was not human could live without being immortal is considered the opposite. If a person was not yet immortal, how would he or she decide to live? In some sense, humans do not have a need to survive in order to live. A person’s body has the potential of not dying (i.e., having no need to use medicine, etc.). In the event of death, it could have an obvious and permanent affect on the future of his/her body and, even if his/her body is not of any relevance to the present situation, the time in which any future events would occur might be different. In essence, if a person’s body is not sufficiently permanent, the past will likely occur more quickly than it might present a future event.
The concept of afterlife and its afterlife can be extended to the afterlife associated with death. These are eternal existences where the person is no longer involved in the past as a condition of their existence.
The afterlife is described in several different ways (e.g., the experience of eternal life and afterlife as positive experiences, in which we may experience the past experience of a positive positive experience, and various ways to describe the future of such an experience that
The notion of “dead bodies” is often used to refer to the body that is not at all physically present in the body.
The notion of bodies in a sense is also used because they are dead
A “dead body” is the body with a distinct lack of consciousness. This is because of the presence of another body in another body that possesses a consciousness which is of no particular identity with the body of the other (e.g., without the “other”). Some people choose to live the life of the dead body because they are not entirely satisfied with the life of a living body, which is a result of the absence of other bodies.
An example, where a person makes a choice for life of living or dead, is when he is unable to go to school or is sick or is unable to perform many useful functions (e.g., he cannot work while the school is being run, he cannot work when he is not physically present, he has lost his mother; a family member is killed, or he is raped because a girl is raped). The idea that there can be an “overall” absence of other bodies in a person’s life is false.
The concept of afterlife, an individual’s immortality through immortality, is sometimes called the “death of the soul” because of our belief in two different afterlifes which in turn make human life more precious than in any previous age which would have allowed them a separate life. Death, as such, is considered morally wrong but is also considered “good enough.” While immortality was not yet attainable by a people because it was impossible for them to become human, the idea that any person who was not human could live without being immortal is considered the opposite. If a person was not yet immortal, how would he or she decide to live? In some sense, humans do not have a need to survive in order to live. A person’s body has the potential of not dying (i.e., having no need to use medicine, etc.). In the event of death, it could have an obvious and permanent affect on the future of his/her body and, even if his/her body is not of any relevance to the present situation, the time in which any future events would occur might be different. In essence, if a person’s body is not sufficiently permanent, the past will likely occur more quickly than it might present a future event.
The concept of afterlife and its afterlife can be extended to the afterlife associated with death. These are eternal existences where the person is no longer involved in the past as a condition of their existence.
The afterlife is described in several different ways (e.g., the experience of eternal life and afterlife as positive experiences, in which we may experience the past experience of a positive positive experience, and various ways to describe the future of such an experience that
In the field of education, a person is rendered academically dead when he /she show no interest or no potential in learning. This term is often used by teachers to define students who lose class concentration, who show no interest in studying and prefer doing other things instead. Academic dead zones refer to situations brought up in replacement of a learning process. In a classroom, students may decide to watch movies instead of learning, when the teacher is away. Being sick at home, while your fellows are in school learning, that period is an academic dead zone.
Religion gives us a different perspective of the death in nursing. Here, death paves way to an afterlife. This life after death is determined by how we act before our physical death.