![]() For some, this may sound rather heartless. In some parts of Tibet, corpses are left on a mountain rather than buried. For them, death comes in stages,” says Dr Jong. They speak of a person not being properly dead until the second burial. For example, in some parts of Indonesia, families dig up the bodies of their dead relatives and rebury them. So is death the brain or the heart stopping? What about if someone has a terminal illness and parts of their bodies die before they do as organs shut down and stop working? “When you start to think about this across different cultures, the question gets even bigger. Even in scientific communities, there is not complete agreement on this.” “There are rituals around death that can vary enormously across different cultures but there can also be different definitions of what death is. ![]() ![]() It may seem strange to ask this but the first question we need to address is what death actually is, says Dr Jonathan Jong from the Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford. ![]()
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