Posted on 10/24/2024 9:55:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A professor of medicine has claimed that, through scientific progress, humans will soon be able to reverse the effects of death, the Telegraph reported .
Sam Parnia, an associate professor of medicine at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, told the publication that what we collectively believe about death today—that it is a final end to life—is “fundamentally wrong.”
According to Parnia, death is a “reversible state.”
People only believe that death is irreversible because they have been conditioned to think so, and to stifle scientific progress, he claimed.
“People used to think you could never go beyond the boundaries of [flying], let alone going beyond the atmosphere of the Earth,” he said. “And if you always believed that, then you’d never try.”
Furthermore, Parnia claimed, it is helpful to understand death not as a moment at which “everything stops,” but as “basically an injury process” that can be treated.
As a result, a large part of overcoming death by means of science will be altering the public perception of death, which is currently a “social convention” that does not “conform with scientific realities.”
More concretely, Parnia claimed that Yale University’s 2019 study demonstrated adequately that pig brains can be brought back to “life” temporarily after death.
A 2022 study also showed that pig brains and hearts could be brought back to function with the aid of other synthetic organs.
According to Parnia, it is only a matter of time until the same methods can be applied to human beings.
Still, he hedged his optimism by suggesting that the best candidates for immediate life extension are those who die from some acute cause while being in otherwise good health.
“If I have a heart attack and die tomorrow, why should I stay dead?” he asked. “That’s not necessary anymore.”
That is correct. Even though individuals may live for a very long time, the sum total of entropy in the *entire* universe will continue to increase until the ‘Heat Death’ of the universe in the distant future when everything will come to a standstill. That’s based on our current understanding of science.
Yeah - Fraunkenschteen... :)
Anyone who is “brought back to life” was not dead.
I (Gene Wilder) have been dead since 2016 and no one has yet tried to bring me back! I do a mean Putting On The Ritz!
More “global warming”
My death was reversed Thanksgiving weekend of 2018, but I had quick CPR and prompt medical attention. I dropped dead on the basketball court, no pulse or respiration. One of the guys started CPR and another called 911. I awoke five days later in the hospital.
Had it happened when I was alone shooting around I doubt that I’d be talking about it.
They should get a solid grip on reanimating a dead car battery before trying the advanced stuff.
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