Incompatible with life
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The term incompatible with life is used in circumstances of injury or developmental disorder that render life impossible.
Examples of injuries incompatible with life are decapitation or gross dismemberment. Other circumstances that are regarded as self-evidently incompatible with life include traumatic hemicorporectomy, decomposition, incineration, hypostasis and rigor mortis; in these circumstances, paramedics and other similar workers may be allowed to regard a person as dead in the absence of a physician.[1][2]