A state in which an organism or a cellular system, as defined by its full set of functionality, ceases to exist (i.e., most of the functions are irreversibly lost).
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In humans what is the last metabolic process to cease after death?
After death which of our body's metabolic processes will continue functioning for the longest?
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What could account for an apparent loss of mass at death?
An interesting tidbit floating around the internet these days is that Dr. Duncan MacDougall apparently weighed people shortly before and after death, and found an average of a 21 gram discrepancy, to ...
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In the vacuum of space would death be instantaneous?
I was arguing with my colleague about this matter (I'm not going to mention which side I fall on).
Would death be immediate in the vacuum of space? For example, if I was suddenly teleported into the ...
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How long human can survive with just drinking water everyday
Can man can live without eating food just by drinking water.
How long human can survive with just drinking water everyday?
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How long can a unicellular organism live without nutrition? What happens after that? Does it depend on the domain?
Say I have three unicellular organisms: a eukariote, a bacterium and an archaeon. If I cut off nutrition from them at the same time, how long will it take for them to die? What will their death look ...
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How long can a naked human survive on Mars?
How long can a naked human survive at the surface of the Mars planet?
For instance, let's say a worker's base takes fire while he sleeps, and he has to run to the emergency building 200 meters away ...
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How does someone die when swallowed by a whale? [closed]
I've been trying to find this out on Google, but so far no convincing answers.
How does someone die when a whale swallows him/her. Is the stomach acid responsible for killing (if yes, which acid and ...
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How is it possible for animated corpses to continue their activity? [closed]
Recently I was watching the documentary series "The Walking Dead" and it occurred to me that it didn't make sense that the walking dead could keep up their activities for such a long period of time, ...
