[Secret Agent Man]

Yes, this will all end well.

[Windflier]

Is this about Ted?

[Does so]

I just heard of this at 1-AM on Coast-2-Coast. Well, there’s (just) dead and there’s “dead”.

[VerySadAmerican]

How do you “recruit” people who are brain dead? That will take one hell of a salesman, er, person.

[BenLurkin]

The ‘Rats have been doing this every fourth November for 100 years.

[MUDDOG]

This is for brain injuries.

Doesn’t sound apllicable to old age.

[RandallFlagg]

Bookmarking

[lee martell]

No. Let the dead stay dead. It’s not just for physical reasons that we die. Some people are depleted spiritually or damaged emotionally, and have already experienced the deaths of their hope, faith or love of any kind. Let these people move on to the next plane of existence. Do not artificially tether them here, any longer than He commands.

[Nailbiter]

The dead come back to life every 4yrs in illinois

[chris37]

When I leave this place, I don’t wish to return.

[TigersEye]

– a process seen in the animal kingdom in creatures like salamanders who can regrow entire limbs....

How often do you do that?

[NoCmpromiz]

How fitting for the Undead.. ;-)

Think we can steal it, er, I mean, lease it for a while?

[AndyTheBear]

...has been granted ethical permission to recruit 20 patients who have been declared clinically dead...

Does the recruitment process involve a certified seance technician so the patient can communicate consent?

[kaehurowing]

This is the Umbrella Corporation, right?

[Pelham]

What could possibly go wrong here...

[minnesota_bound]

What you end up with is.... zombies!!

[OneHun]

"....future therapeutic development for other severe disorders of consciousness, such as coma, and the vegetative and minimally conscious states, as well as a range of degenerative CNS conditions, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease."

Interesting trial.  Hopefully they will succeed and extend their focus on serious stroke patients, too. 

 

[Mad Dawgg]

you should probably weigh-in on this matter....

[cynwoody]

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.

How does one 'recruit' the 'clinically dead'?

After all, if their 'central nervous system' needs to be brought to back to life, how can it possibly comprehend the concept of consenting to an experimental procedure?

Not that this means the experiment shouldn't be done ... only that it shouldn't be framed in such unctuous ethical nonsense.

[Fresh Wind]