A cold, monotone voice can be heard: "this person has expired. Please contact the authorities."
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I happen to have some experience with this, as I used to teach anatomy at university. Many of the corpses that we used, contained metal knees, and other improvements, you can, for instance, clearly see where open heart surgery was used to improve the heart. Now, all these corpses have been soaked in alcohol and formaldehyde to conserve them, so they are obviously dead. A few times however, the olde pumpe may start beating again, if it has artificial components. We tutors laughed our toupees off, as students would get the shock of their lives, when the corpses would sit up, or even chase them across the room!
That would completely traumatize me but I also want to see it myself
Most countries use brain death as the deciding factor.
Meaning you body can be held alive artificially, but if the brain isn't working, you are dead, and there is no chance of coming back.
Of course if the heart hasn't been beating for 5 minutes and you are not kept artificially alive, you are probably considered dead too.
Depends on how it's meant to work. If it amplifies the actual heart's movement, it might not do much. They usually have a power supply, which will make it keep doing what it does.
So, if it's a 100% artificial heart, it will do what it does. If it's there to force the heart to beat without the heart's natural movements, it will keep force it to beat the same as before, same as if you pass electricity through any muscle.
I would imagine that it would. The alternative is that it would not, which would mean that it would need some sensor to determine that you were no longer alive, at which point it would stop working. There's no real point for it to have a feature to stop working. It's probably better for it to be seen as 'creepy' by continuing to work inside of a dead body than for it to constantly be checking to see if you're alive, since the surgery to change the battery is probably pretty invasive, so they want to do it only every so many years, to maximise its efficiency. Also, false positives (negatives?) would be problematic. You'd just want it to keep working regardless.
EMTs probably have a way to shut it down, though. It's probably impossible or really difficult to do it accidentally, but I'm sure there's a way. Good question for an EMT if you happen to meet one. They aren't squeamish. It's just a matter if they feel like talking to you or not, I suppose.
This isn't what you asked exactly, but I know they can externally disable a pacemaker once the patient is determined to be deceased so it will stop trying to shock the heart back. Otherwise it will continue to try to save the person.
Your body is alive but your brain is dead and that makes Jesus sad.
But that’s fifty percent of the population.