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From the biological point of view, the human organism does not experience an abrupt transition from life to death. Dying is a gradual process, which starts with the irreversible failure of individual vital organs, that is to say, “organic death”; then comes the destruction of large groups of cells, and finally the decay of the last cells, which is ‘total death’.
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Weissauer, W., Frey, R. (1979). The Border Between Life and Death in Critical Care Medicine. In: Tavares, B.M., Frey, R. (eds) Acute Care. Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine/Anaesthesiologie und Intensivmedizin, vol 116. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67211-8_16
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