Posted on 12/18/2022 12:44:51 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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Over the last 70 or so years, declaring death has gotten progressively messier. Scientific advances such as ventilators and life support have made it harder and harder to find the line between being a person and being a body. Now, mind-blowing experiments in pigs, and the development of a souped-up life-support system called OrganEx, are reinvigorating a decades-old debate about how our lives end.
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Yale neurobiologist Nenad Sestan researches genes that control how neurons grow and form connections in the developing brain. To perform these studies, he orders slices of tissue from brain banks around the world. Eight or nine years ago, a specimen from London missed the plane. The extra day it took to arrive was presumed to be catastrophic: Cells die after several minutes without oxygen. It’s one of the first things Sestan recalls learning in medical school.
But Sestan had already noticed that this wasn’t always the case. On several occasions, someone left a brain slab out a few extra hours before moving it into fluid for experiments, yet Sestan had still managed to recover living cells. So when the overdue brain arrived from London, Sestan asked one of his postdoctoral fellows to dissect a piece of it and let it grow in a petri dish containing cellular nutrients. “Maybe something will be there alive,” he said.
It worked; some cells grew. And then it worked again on a second brain the researchers sliced and recovered to make sure the results weren’t a fluke. Sestan started to wonder: If living cells could be preserved from a dead brain, why not try to revive the whole organ?
Using assorted pumps, heaters, and filters to circulate a custom-made blood substitute, Sestan and his coworkers cobbled together a now-patented perfusion system, which they called BrainEx.
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Classic scene in a great comedy...
Is that a bug or a feature?
I guess all those militias gearing up and training for the “Zombie Apocalypse” are validated, no? Some would say that the Deep already have this technology; would explain Fetternan and the average Dem voter.
Thanks.
I couldn’t imagine that what would keep a brain functioning wouldn’t keep a kidney, spleen or heart functioning.
A buddy of mine had a horrible stroke. His words to me, “I didn’t want to come back!”
Seems to me this is most important research into a endangered species taking place at this time! Clearly working functioning human brains are on the fast lane to exciton!
One doesn’t need to be an atheist to experience or accept the theory of Astral Projection. I’m Catholic and I have had such an experience, albeit involuntarily.
Why is it that under anesthesia, there is absolutely no feeling of consciousness whatsoever? Why isn’t anesthesia just like being asleep? No little dreams or anything else?
That’s the entire premise of Buddhism. Life is an illusion, the afterlife is the real life.
CC
Wondering why they gave this process a name that sounds like something you can order from Amazon for $19.99 a bottle.
ping for later.
Cue the Archer meme:
Do you want Zombies? BECAUSE THAT’S HOW YOU GET ZOMBIES.
“She’s a democrat. She was already brain dead, sir.”
Decomposition is very real and decidedly a win for the bacteria and parasites that make up a huge percentage of our anatomy. As for liberals, how could you know if it was a restart or a first use.
I respectfully disagree. IMHO with so much obvious design in nature in the universe, it requires a lot of faith to believe that we all got here by a series of freak accidents.
Excellent analogy 👍
I died 2x in York Hospital, during a 23 day stay for acute/severe Pancreatitis, from general anesthesia post-op, and was brought back both times (obviously). I don’t remember anything, except sleeping.
>>6 X. Must be a record!<<
Not even close. About a week ago, there was one that went 142 or 143 consecutive.
It was Osage Orange, “Kill your own meat.”
Wow.
"And we reached the inevitable conclusion that patients experienced all the aforementioned NDE (Near Death Experience) elements during the period of their cardiac arrest, during the total cessation of blood supply to the brain."
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