Thread: The "My word, that's an interesting fact!" thread
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Old 2010-12-21, 01:51   Link #36
SaintessHeart
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Originally Posted by MeoTwister5 View Post
Basic life control system are controlled by the brain stem such as breathing and certain reflex arcs. The heart pumping mechanism is part of the intrinsic pacemaker system of the heart and is mostly independent of CNS control.

The spinal cord reserves a bit of control over basic life control functions from 2nd and third order neurons that keep such actions ongoing until it shuts off when higher cortical controls from the brain stem and higher completely disappear, which accounts as to why corpses are observed to actually possess shallow and primitive breathing alongside basic reflexes seconds after death.
You mean it is like people don't die instantly when they are killed (unless when shot through the head with a high-mass projectile)?
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