Quote Originally Posted by Shinysides View Post
Technically even with zero brain activity if your heart is still beating and other major organs are still functioning, you are still alive. Death is technically when your heart stops beating. But I'm just nit-picking.
What? Says who? There is no single, universally accepted correct definition of when death occurs or when someone is alive/dead, so it makes no sense to say that "technically" someone is still alive under such and such conditions. Saying "technically" makes it sound like there is some official definition of death out there, which there isn't. Even if by "technically" you mean "legally", different jurisdictions have different definitions for when someone is legally dead; heart stoppage isn't the universal legal definition of death by any means. So basically, no, it is totally untrue and meaningless to say that you are "technically dead when your heart stops beating".