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It is also used to refer to the spontaneous return of cardiac activity after the patient has been pronounced dead. [2] Its occurrence has been noted in medical literature at least 38 times since 1982. [3] [4] It takes its name from Lazarus who, according to the New Testament, was raised from the dead by Jesus. [5]
Most legal determinations of death in the developed world are made by medical professionals who pronounce death when specific criteria are met. [4] Two categories of legal death are death determined by irreversible cessation of heartbeat (cardiopulmonary death), and death determined by irreversible cessation of functions of the brain (brain death).
Taphophobia (from Greek τάφος – taphos, "grave, tomb" [1] and φόβος – phobos, "fear" [2]) is an abnormal (psychopathological) phobia of being buried alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead. [3] Before the era of modern medicine, the fear was not entirely irrational.
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A Milwaukee man continues to recover after being pronounced dead earlier this week. Milwaukee police say around 11:20 p.m. Tuesday night, May Milwaukee man pronounced dead, but then starts moving
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A patient with working heart and lungs who is determined to be brain dead can be pronounced legally dead without clinical death occurring. However, some courts have been reluctant to impose such a determination over the religious objections of family members, such as in the Jesse Koochin case. [30]
Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared in 1975 and was presumed dead in 1982.. A presumption of death occurs when an individual is believed to be dead, despite the absence of direct proof of the person's death, such as the finding of remains (e.g., a corpse or skeleton) attributable to that person.