Sentence examples for cessation of functioning from inspiring English sources

For example, the organismic definition death as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the organism as a whole makes no reference to consciousness.

According to the whole-brain standard, human death is the irreversible cessation of functioning of the entire brain, including the brainstem.

An advocate could respond by introducing a modified definition: In the case of any human being in possession of a functioning brain, death is the irreversible cessation of functioning of the entire brain.

Some champions of the traditional standard (e.g., Becker 1975) have conceptualized death in the same organismic terms that proponents of the whole-brain standard invoke: death as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the organism as a whole.

Examples include death as the irreversible cessation of organismic functioning and human death as the irreversible loss of personhood.

A major contention that motivates this thesis is that irreversible cessation of brain function will quickly lead to irreversible loss of cardiopulmonary function (and vice versa).

Cardiac death occurs after irreversible cessation of cardiac function.

The commission culminated in the Uniform Determination of Death Act in 1981, which defined death as "irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brainstem".

Second, "irreversible cessation" of cardiac function meant that at least five minutes had to pass without a heartbeat.

If the law required "irreversible" cessation of heart function, Boucek concluded, there was no reason to wait much longer than that.

Like all states, California follows a version of the 1981 Uniform Determination of Death Act, which says that someone who has sustained the "irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead".