Legal death is the recognition under the law of a particular jurisdiction that a person is no longer alive.
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10 Facts About Legal death
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In most cases, a doctor's declaration of death or the identification of a corpse is a legal requirement for such recognition.
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Cardiopulmonary criteria for Legal death are met when a physician determines that efforts to restart a stopped heart during cardiac arrest are futile, or that no attempt should be made to restart a stopped heart, such as when there is a Do Not Resuscitate order.
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Brain Legal death determinations are made in cases where breathing is supported by machines.
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Brain Legal death is determined by there being no signs of brain function during neurological examination of a person with a beating heart.
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Unlike cardiopulmonary Legal death which sometimes involves a decision not to resuscitate the heart, brain Legal death is a determination that the brain biologically cannot be resuscitated.
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Legal death's wife had a court declare him dead in 2016, after having no contact with him since July 1999, shortly before a major earthquake in Turkey.
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Manner of Legal death is usually classified as natural, accidental, homicide, suicide, pending or undetermined.
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Cardiac Legal death is determined after a patient has suffered cardiac arrest for two to five minutes.
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