Posted on 09/17/2019 2:23:07 PM PDT by Red Badger
“I believe in putting the fun in funerals.”
Loved that Night Court episode.
Well played, Max!
But I thought Ruthie would be in the top 3 at least!
How does the anesthesia circulate into the system if there’s no respiration or circulation? Is it local and they just administer it with a needle into likely reflex points?
I remember reading an American soldier’s account of Okinawa. He had been fighting for quite some time, mostly had the Japanese licked, when in the final moments the Japanese launched a massive banzai attack across open ground, into our prepared defenses.
This of course was folly, and in this soldiers words, we chewed them up. Wave after wave, mountains of corpses littered the battlefield.
But the strange part was yet to come. Apparently that night, a body close to his position, sat stone cold straight up and moaned the most blood curdling moan he had ever heard. Later many others were doing the same. He thought maybe the Japanese were playing possum, as did others who were laying down withering fire against their new foes.
Until one gentlemen, who had the past knowledge to know, informed them that those men were dead. That the heat of the pacific, helped quicken decomposition, and that when the gasses of the body escape the throat that it will vibrate the vocal cords.
That story always stuck with me, and I cannot imagine being in their place.
There is respiration and circulation, otherwise you’d be dead.
Interestingly enough, it appears that no one really knows why anesthesia “works” they way it does.
You’re unconscious, but still breathing etc.. The autonomous functions continue, but everything else turned off.
Genveive Bujold was hot back then. Hard to believe she is 77 now.
A-holes don’t show any of what they are talking about.
Geez, already half insane from fatigue and lack of sleep, then the zombies come out!
Made me remember an incident many years ago when I was commuting through farming country. Visible from the interstate was a field which sloped down from the homestead to near the highwayside. A fullgrown cow keeled over at some point (clement weather so spring or fall) and each day my commute provided a demonstration of decomposition of that cow as it progressed from fresh cadaver to bag of bones. My family still lives there and I can’t travel near that spot without remembering it.
Exhibit - Che Guevera
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Stephen Fry had a drive across America show. He stopped by the UTenn one.
My Grandfather a WW! vet opted for Cremation rather than the whole extravaganza of a funeral and had his ashes scattered in the Superstition Mountains outside of Phoenix.
Personally I do not get the whole pickling and packaging model today, ashes to ashes, dust to dust is what I read and believe
God does not need the body to resurrect us
After a long time, they do, but not for many years.
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