Definition of death
If the function of the breathing arrangement has mechanically been stopped, why the advanced scientist can not restore the breathing organ by modern appliances of oxygen gas and artificial breathing apparatus. Even if the breathing is restored still the dead body cannot be brought into life. Because the 'symptom of breathing is one of the condition of life but it does not mean actual life.
There are many animals which do not show any symptom of breathing and as such the fly and the ant do actually live without any breathing. The fish in the water does not breathe and still it lives within the water.
A man cannot breath within the water and therefore he dies within water. And the fish dies on the land.
Therefore breathing is not always life it is a symptom only. It may be a symptom of life for the man and we can only say that the breathing man is alive.
The conclusion that the spirit soul having departed from the dead body it can no more work or move in spite of all other conditions being present. The body is now vacant in the absence of the living being. And if we do not accept this difference of life and death, there cannot be any proper explanation for death. The living being is therefore a combination of matter and spirit and when the spirit is off the matter becomes as it is. That is the right definition of death.
The material scientist has observed the physiological condition of life but be has failed to observe the spiritual condition of life. And in the absence of such observation material science has failed to study the conditions of life. The materialists believe in deeds and actual facts. How they can deny the spiritual fact without any reasonable alternative. We must therefore accept the participation of the spirit soul within the material body. The material scientist must submit a perfect definition of death before he can deny spiritual existence of the living being.
REf: EA 36: How Should One Cultivate Human Spirit-Part 2
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