Beat me to it. There is a difference between clinical death - where one of several life processes stops - and actual death, where decay and deterioration starts to happen.
If you can be started back up, you were not actually dead to begin with.
Oh yea? Then how exactly do you explain this?
He's dead, but he just keeps coming back.
But if you are brain dead, then you are not supposed to be able to think. If you get new memories from that time, where did they come from?
If we don't have a good definition of when life begins, I doubt we have a good definition of when death begins.
Thus, the organ donation program is a sham and is killing people via disection to harvest hearts and other body parts.