The Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) is a model state law that was approved for the United States in 1981 by the National Conference of Commissioners ...
The manner of death is a determination, typically made by the coroner, medical examiner, police, or similar officials, and recorded as a vital statistic.
A cause of death is determined by a medical examiner. In rare cases, an autopsy needs to be performed by a pathologist. The cause of death is a specific disease ...
Non-heart-beating organ donation Cardiac death is determined after a patient has suffered cardiac arrest for two to five minutes.
Thanatology is the scientific study of death and the losses brought about as a result. It investigates the mechanisms and forensic aspects of death.
Death is the end of life; the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. The remains of a former organism normally ...
The stages of death of a human being have medical, biochemical and legal aspects. The term taphonomy from palaeontology applies to the fate of all kinds of ...
Clinical death is the medical term for cessation of blood circulation and breathing, the two criteria necessary to sustain the lives of human beings and of ...
A presumption of death occurs when an individual is believed to be dead, despite the absence of direct proof of the person's death.
Brain death is the permanent, irreversible, and complete loss of brain function, which may include cessation of involuntary activity necessary to sustain life.