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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read a helicopter equipped with technology to find her pacemaker has been flying around but it would need to get pretty close to ping. I’m wondering if it would work only if she’s alive or if it could ping if it’s no longer functioning. [/quote]

It will still ping. Pacemakers remain active after death until they are deactivated after death with special devices, which hospice nurses and hospital staff have access to.

If the person is cremated, you have to remove it because the battery could explode.

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You remember when the actor Gene Hackman died about a year ago in New Mexico?  They decided that he must have died on the day his pacemaker quit working.  
So why would Nancy's pacemaker keep working even if she is dead? 
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Pacemakers will record cardiac arrest and the events leading up to it (like a sudden arrythmia, or a slowing heart) and send alerts to a monitoring device. But after they record cardiac arrest, the device keeps working as long as the battery is alive, regardless of whether the person is alive or dead. Pacemaker batteries are designed to last years, so you can ping a dead person's pacemaker from the connected bluetooth device for years if it isn't deactivated properly.[/quote]
This is what I have read regarding pacemakers.

However, my friend said with her mother's pacemaker, they had to determine how long it would continue working should the pacemaker detect no heart beat. They decided on 5 minutes. My friend is ultra wealthy, so are there different grades of pacemakers with an option of a more costly one allowing the person or family to decide in advance how long it will keep working after the heart stops beating?[/quote]

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