Posted on 05/03/2016 11:08:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A groundbreaking trial to see if it is possible to regenerate the brains of dead people, has won approval from health watchdogs.
A biotech company in the US has been granted ethical permission to recruit 20 patients who have been declared clinically dead from a traumatic brain injury, to test whether parts of their central nervous system can be brought back to life.
Scientists will use a combination of therapies, which include injecting the brain with stem cells and a cocktail of peptides, as well as deploying lasers and nerve stimulation techniques which have been shown to bring patients out of comas.
The trial participants will have been certified dead and only kept alive through life support. They will be monitored for several months using brain imaging equipment to look for signs of regeneration, particularly in the upper spinal cord - the lowest region of the brain stem which controls independent breathing and heartbeat.
The team believes that the brain stem cells may be able to erase their history and re-start life again, based on their surrounding tissue a process seen in the animal kingdom in creatures like salamanders who can regrow entire limbs....
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
So even if this were to work as described, the now un-dead person would have no memory of their past life, and would be like a child in an adult body. This would create more problems than it presumes to solve. The grieving family would not really get their loved one’s ‘back’. The soul of that person would still be dead and gone. This should make some good movie scripts for actors like Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage or Kenau Reeves.
The soul being dead is another issue. Yes, getting them back would cause infinite new problems unless resurrected as Lazarus.
They would become democrats.
And Frankenstein was cobbled together from dead bodies, and, if you are willing to believe it, ...
lol
How do you know Terri was her original person. I’m sure most close to her would have disagreed.
i’ve known people ravaged by brain damage and they are not their “original person”
She should never have been murdered but your argument isn’t strong.
Terri's soul was still there--in some sense, she was still the same person and may have still had some of the original memories. If the brain of someone like Terri could be regenerated with her own stem cells, she probably wouldn't be the same as before. However, none of us is the same person as we were one, five, or twenty years ago. All of us exist on a continuum with the person we were in the past--and so would be the case with a severely brain injured person whose brain could be repaired, they would still be on the same continuum.
OTOH, once the brain dies, the person is gone. Growing a new brain in that body truly would be creating a new person--and in unethical fashion, since that new person would be a child in an adult body, and would have a seriously truncated life-span as compared to children who start off in the usual way.
Wouldn’t that be done through next of kin?
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