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Is Death Real? New Experiments Raise Important Questions On What It Means To Die
MSN ^ | 12-18-22 | Esther Landhuis

Posted on 12/18/2022 12:44:51 PM PST by Tired of Taxes

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Over the last 70 or so years, declaring death has gotten progressively messier. Scientific advances such as ventilators and life support have made it harder and harder to find the line between being a person and being a body. Now, mind-blowing experiments in pigs, and the development of a souped-up life-support system called OrganEx, are reinvigorating a decades-old debate about how our lives end.

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Yale neurobiologist Nenad Sestan researches genes that control how neurons grow and form connections in the developing brain. To perform these studies, he orders slices of tissue from brain banks around the world. Eight or nine years ago, a specimen from London missed the plane. The extra day it took to arrive was presumed to be catastrophic: Cells die after several minutes without oxygen. It’s one of the first things Sestan recalls learning in medical school.

But Sestan had already noticed that this wasn’t always the case. On several occasions, someone left a brain slab out a few extra hours before moving it into fluid for experiments, yet Sestan had still managed to recover living cells. So when the overdue brain arrived from London, Sestan asked one of his postdoctoral fellows to dissect a piece of it and let it grow in a petri dish containing cellular nutrients. “Maybe something will be there alive,” he said.

It worked; some cells grew. And then it worked again on a second brain the researchers sliced and recovered to make sure the results weren’t a fluke. Sestan started to wonder: If living cells could be preserved from a dead brain, why not try to revive the whole organ?

Using assorted pumps, heaters, and filters to circulate a custom-made blood substitute, Sestan and his coworkers cobbled together a now-patented perfusion system, which they called BrainEx.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: brain; chat; faithandphilosophy; nde; neardeathexperience; reincarnation
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To: tired&retired

LOL, for a bit there I thought I was the only one who noticed all the same post 6 times.


61 posted on 12/18/2022 2:31:02 PM PST by WVNan
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To: Tired of Taxes

He’s dead Jim.


62 posted on 12/18/2022 2:32:16 PM PST by George J. Jetso
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To: Tired of Taxes

For goodness sakes, I hope they never mix up the brains.


63 posted on 12/18/2022 2:37:11 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: tired&retired

A good friend of mine is an ER nurse. She has told me the same thing. She also told me one patient told her that the tops of the doors and fixtures around the room needed dusting.


64 posted on 12/18/2022 2:45:47 PM PST by GingisK
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To: cuban leaf
In the resurrection will be aware of any passage of time between the resurrection and the day they actually died. It will be instantaneous.

The Catholic Church teaches a doctrine called the Communion of the Saints. The souls of the dead are alive and conscious in Heaven as they await the bodily resurrection. They even pray for us.

How else do you explain Revelation 6:9-11.

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been.

65 posted on 12/18/2022 2:47:03 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: tired&retired

peace


66 posted on 12/18/2022 2:47:35 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: tired&retired

Same experience.


67 posted on 12/18/2022 2:55:31 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (We are not fit to live free but must be enslaved to control the chaos of our unfettered appetites.)
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To: roadcat
Maybe they can try this on Joe Biden?

Some things are better left dead.

68 posted on 12/18/2022 2:58:26 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (We are not fit to live free but must be enslaved to control the chaos of our unfettered appetites.)
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To: roadcat

No way. It’s too far gone. 🤯


69 posted on 12/18/2022 3:02:17 PM PST by 6ppc (Democrats would have to climb Everest to reach the level of "scum of the earth")
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To: atc23

anesthesia is brain death.


70 posted on 12/18/2022 3:04:58 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (We are not fit to live free but must be enslaved to control the chaos of our unfettered appetites.)
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To: Tired of Taxes
Remember this movie



71 posted on 12/18/2022 3:12:17 PM PST by Waverunner
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To: Tired of Taxes

I wonder that at the time of death the brain can be disconnected from the body that’s failing and be resuscitated and reactivated with oxygen and a flow of blood


72 posted on 12/18/2022 3:23:40 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Tired of Taxes

Please let death be a figment of our imagination.


73 posted on 12/18/2022 3:24:04 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

****I’m sure Elon Musk has a chip ready to prove that death can be overturned.

How many would gladly take it?****

And end up like this guy?

According to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, when Eos asked Zeus to grant Tithonus eternal life, the god consented. But Eos forgot to ask also for eternal youth.


74 posted on 12/18/2022 3:32:00 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (OUT of Facebook Jail for quoting a line from the Dean Martin movie "Rough Night In Jericho.")
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To: Tired of Taxes

Hi.

One time long ago a guy named Anthony Hopkins sliced off a piece of Ray Liotta:s brain.

Maybe that’s why he died?

5.56mm


75 posted on 12/18/2022 3:39:40 PM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go)
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To: 353FMG
Please let death be a figment of our imagination.

I was hoping that's what the article would say, but... oh, well.

76 posted on 12/18/2022 3:47:42 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: 353FMG

A young man went to his Rabbi and said “ I am so happy I never want to die”. The Rabbi said , “ young man you need to get married”!


77 posted on 12/18/2022 4:06:17 PM PST by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: Veto!

*HUGS*

My late best friend (of 25 or so years) passed, and had no idea. He came to me one night, and I had to tell him. Then, he came to me later to tell me “that he’d made it”.

NO parent should ever outlive a child. It’s just so bad.


78 posted on 12/18/2022 4:06:23 PM PST by FrankRizzo890
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To: roadcat

NO Please! Enough is enough.


79 posted on 12/18/2022 4:19:44 PM PST by wjr123
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To: roadcat

NO Please! Enough is enough.


80 posted on 12/18/2022 4:22:23 PM PST by wjr123
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