If you are serving a life sentence, die, are legally declared dead, and are brought back to life, are you now free?
<p>Apologies if this is too hypothetical and not allowed. I'm not trained in law, but am curious about the following question:</p>

<p>If you are sentenced to 1 life sentence, die, are legally declared dead, and you are brought back to life (not going to address how, but who knows, maybe it's something that could happen in the future), will you now be free, having technically served a life sentence? You were in prison until your death. Would the second interval of life be considered the same life, and so imprisonment should continue, or would it be a second life? </p>

<p>I understand that there is probably no precedent for this and so any answer may just be speculation. But if you were the judge, what would your opinion be?</p>

<p>As a follow up question, if the answer is that your second life would be free, then what if you have 2 life sentences? Would you serve another life sentence upon your second life? In that case, would the second life sentence be considered served to completion upon your second death, in which case you would be free if you were lucky enough to be revived once more?</p>

<p>If you can be revived, you are <strong>not</strong> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_death" rel="noreferrer">legally dead</a>.</p>

<p>To be declared dead you must be in cardio-pulmonary failure and have all attempts at resuscitation cease or be brain dead - no one has ever recovered from these conditions.</p>

<p>Notwithstanding, if you are declared legally dead and show up alive, that declaration can be nullified i.e. you were never dead.</p>

<p>Not a life sentence, but close enough to post it. After all, once you are dead you stop serving time; you no longer are a prisoner.</p>

<p>Recently in Spain a prisoner was found in a deep coma (apparently he attempted to suicide) and was certified dead, only to be revived later (<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42609239" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42609239</a>).</p>

<p>And no, he was not freed because of the incident. I have read that he has asked for an amnesty on the basis of the "mental pain" from the incident, but that is all.</p>

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