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If a person is classified as braindead can they still hear?
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My uncle has had a massive stroke, subsequent siezures, clots, fluid on brain and pneumonia. He had a Cranieotomy on Friday one day after the stroke, and all of the above happened thereafter. He has been certified as clinically having more than 60% os his brain function left, however I have been told that he is now dying. If his brain is ceasing to function, can he still hear people talking? Mum said he was practically brain dead last night and family were visiting him at the hospital. I just wondered if he'd still be able to hear people?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Not an expert on this but I have heard that hearing is the very last sense to go.
However whether he still has the ability to comprehend what he hears might be depend on the nature of the damage - if the area of the brain that deals with language is damaged he may be able to hear but not not make sense of anything
However whether he still has the ability to comprehend what he hears might be depend on the nature of the damage - if the area of the brain that deals with language is damaged he may be able to hear but not not make sense of anything
As I understand it braindead is the phrase used to be explicit about the person being dead. If they have 60% still active he is not in that state yet. I dont think anyone can be sure for a particular individual but I think you may as well assume he can hear until he has no brain activity left. (And depending on your religious/spiritual believes maybe even after that - but I guess that's a different issue.)
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