Thanks for the definitions. However, as I said repeatedly, the point is not the definitions, but questioning which definition applies, and who to trust concerning testimony as to those applications, when compared to the rest of the story, common sense and tens of millions of dollars in litigation awards.
At issue is the mother saying her “heart” hasn't stopped and if that were to occur she'd accept it. Which isn't true because her daughter indeed had a heart failure and she didn't accept it then. ...and now she's saying if the body begins to decompose she'll take her of the ventilator. It is decomposing and was doing so from the time they declared her dead.
The mother is in extreme denial or something more sinister is at work or both.
California has a set limit, (250,000 I think) on what they can recover if they sue...BUT...keeping her on a ventilator can go into millions.
There's a photo of the daughters hand, taken about Jan 9th...and you can see the decomposition is happening.
If they are feeding her through tubes etc. it will simply slide out through the testinal track with a foul smell.