• Question: can someone be dead but alive at the same time?

    Asked by Lennen to Deborah, Euan, Maheen, Rob, Stu on 17 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Deborah Prunty

      Deborah Prunty answered on 17 Jun 2016:


      That depends on what you mean by dead and alive. Someone can be brain dead, that is have no brain activity, but have their body kept alive by machine. They are very unlikely to wake up from that though.

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