What Has Caused Every Human Death?
Contrary to popular belief, human death is more of a process than a singular event. We often ascribe the cause of human death to a condition or illness or trauma, but in reality, the final cause of every human death is a condition called cerebral hypoxia or cerebral ischemia. To put it simply, all human death has been the direct result of oxygen deprivation to the brain cells. Cerebral hypoxia is rarely mentioned as a cause of human death, outside of specific traumas such as drowning or suffocation. When doctors speak of causes of human death, they often refer to the conditions which led to the deprivation of oxygen. The causes of human death are often listed in a specific order of events. A cancer patient’s cause of death may be listed as cerebral hypoxia, caused by pulmonary edema, caused by pervasive lung cancer. It may be acceptable to say a patient’s death was caused by cancer or heart disease or severe trauma, but the real human death is caused by complications of those condition
The death of human beings is, therefore, not like the death of animals. These die because of a law of nature. Nor is man’s death an event which occurs accidentally or has merely an aspect of temporality. On the contrary, man’s death, if I may so speak, was threatened by God and is caused by an incensed and estranged God.
