Posted on 05/02/2007 5:59:43 AM PDT by Renfield
~~~snip~~~ But if the cells are still alive, why can't doctors revive someone who has been dead for an hour? Because once the cells have been without oxygen for more than five minutes, they die when their oxygen supply is resumed. It was that "astounding" discovery, Becker says, that led him to his post as the director of Penn's Center for Resuscitation Science, a newly created research institute operating on one of medicine's newest frontiers: treating the dead. ~~~snip~~~
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Interesting.
Bring out your dead!
LOL !
There’s hope for you!
But I’m not dead yet!
Anybody remember Pet Sematary?
Jud Crandall: “Sometimes, dead is better.”
And as a paramedic who’s seen some “saves” which leave the patient a ventilator-dependent brain-dead vegetable, I have to agree with Mr. Crandall.
An amazing discovery. Too bad this article doesn’t include, say, astronauts in diapers or Anna Nicole Smith. If it did, more than five freepers would read it.
Well, Anna Nicole Smith is dead.
Coincidence? I think not!
Saw this earlier this morning on the BBC’s site. It’s going to raise some ethical issues for sure. And I wonder how it’s going to, if at all, affect the arguments of those that believe right to life is sacrosanct (i.e. the debacle in Florida). Just how dead is a person and do we have the right to revive them? Should we revive them? What if they want to be revived but the law says don’t? Or moreso what if they don’t want to be revived but the law says they must be? It could get even more ridiculous than it was a few years ago
When your brain is pudding, you be dead.
Schiavo is not a good example for heart tissue refurbishing.
Look, you’re not foolin’ anybody.
LOL, I know but if scientists can refurbish heart tissue, one wonders what the theoretical next step would be in the minds of some people, even if it would never be feasible. But the whole idea of how long a cell stays alive could present interesting moral questions. Should someone that would be considered dead just a year ago for all intent and purposes be brought back? Just how far reaching into the death cycle could we get that someone could be revived?
I’d say, if they can be revived, they should. However, my own mother is so consumed by dimentia that when she was on a respirator from having a stroke, if my brother hadn’t objected, I’d have followed the doctor’s advice and pulled the plug. She’s still alive months later, but doesn’t know who or where she is. I don’t think she’d want to have lived like this.
I think it would be a fresh new voter base for the Democrats. Think about it... no brain, no ability to perceive being taxed up the arse. The perfect Democrat voter!
LOL!
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