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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LOL, for a bit there I thought I was the only one who noticed all the same post 6 times.
He’s dead Jim.
For goodness sakes, I hope they never mix up the brains.
A good friend of mine is an ER nurse. She has told me the same thing. She also told me one patient told her that the tops of the doors and fixtures around the room needed dusting.
The Catholic Church teaches a doctrine called the Communion of the Saints. The souls of the dead are alive and conscious in Heaven as they await the bodily resurrection. They even pray for us.
How else do you explain Revelation 6:9-11.
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been.
peace
Same experience.
Some things are better left dead.
No way. It’s too far gone. 🤯
anesthesia is brain death.
I wonder that at the time of death the brain can be disconnected from the body that’s failing and be resuscitated and reactivated with oxygen and a flow of blood
Please let death be a figment of our imagination.
****I’m sure Elon Musk has a chip ready to prove that death can be overturned.
How many would gladly take it?****
And end up like this guy?
According to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, when Eos asked Zeus to grant Tithonus eternal life, the god consented. But Eos forgot to ask also for eternal youth.
Hi.
One time long ago a guy named Anthony Hopkins sliced off a piece of Ray Liotta:s brain.
Maybe that’s why he died?
5.56mm
I was hoping that's what the article would say, but... oh, well.
A young man went to his Rabbi and said “ I am so happy I never want to die”. The Rabbi said , “ young man you need to get married”!
*HUGS*
My late best friend (of 25 or so years) passed, and had no idea. He came to me one night, and I had to tell him. Then, he came to me later to tell me “that he’d made it”.
NO parent should ever outlive a child. It’s just so bad.
NO Please! Enough is enough.
NO Please! Enough is enough.
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