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• Civil personality


  Extinguished by death
• The rights and obligations of the deceased pass on to their heirs
• Criminal liability of a person is extinguished by death
• Death of a partner will cause dissolution of partnership
• Types of death


  • Natural death
  • Violent death
  • Judicial death
• Natural death


  Old age, nocturnal death, suffering illness
• Violent death


  Moral turpitude
• Judicial death


  Adjudication of the court, death penalty
• Clinical death or Somatic death


  Declared by immediate family or physician
• Immediate signs of clinical death

  • Cessation of chest movement due to respiration
  • Pale color of face and lips
  • No pulse and heart beats
  • Flaccidity of muscle and jaw
  • Dilated pupil and loss of cornea reaction to light
• Types of clinical death

  • Sociological death
  • Psychic death
  • Biological death
  • Physiologic death
• Sociological death


  Withdrawal and separation of the patient from others showing isolation and abandonment
• Psychic death


  Patient regresses and accepts his dying situation
• Biological death

  Absence of cognitive functions of the body although the organs can still be maintained by life support system
• Physiologic death


  All vital organs is no longer functioning
• Molecular or Cellular death


  Death of individual cells after the somatic death, brain cells die earlier after 5 minutes
• Apparent death/State of suspended animation

  Loss of consciousness or temporary cessation of the vital function of the body due to diseases or other forms of external influence