-- Posted by shutter bugs at 7:06 am on Aug. 27, 2008 when you have a heart transplant you don't die they connect you up with this machine and it pumps and oxygenates the blood, also to be clinically dead your brain has to be stopped, or not working I don't know the proper term for it but your when you have no brain activity you are clinically dead. yes, no breathing is dead, however, you can be resuscitated if you have a little bit of brain or heart/lung or any function like that. correct me if I'm wrong, but that is my knowledge of it. -- Posted by Troll1000 at 7:08 am on Aug. 27, 2008 you are technically dead though -- Posted by Phoenix 2008 at 7:08 am on Aug. 27, 2008 exactly you CAN iyou dont say you WILL its you CAN -- Posted by Phoenix 2008 at 7:09 am on Aug. 27, 2008 Quote: from Troll1000 at 7:08 am on Aug. 27, 2008 you are technically dead though this -- Posted by Dont Notice Me at 7:09 am on Aug. 27, 2008 ooooooo fun stuff -- Posted by aGIRLunknown at 7:35 am on Aug. 27, 2008 Quote: from Troll1000 at 10:08 am on Aug. 27, 2008 you are technically dead though -- Posted by Wilder at 8:49 am on Aug. 27, 2008 Quote: from Phoenix 2008 at 8:09 am on Aug. 27, 2008 Quote: from Troll1000 at 7:08 am on Aug. 27, 2008 you are technically dead though this No. Wrong. Not that. As the OP indirectly acknowledged, the medical definition for death has been changed. If your heart and breathing stops, you are no longer technically considered dead. It is only after brain activity ceases that you are now medically considered to have died.