http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18368186/site/newsweek/
To Treat the Dead
The new science of resuscitation is changing the way doctors think
about heart attacks―and death itself.
By Jerry Adler
Newsweek
May 7, 2007 issue - Consider someone who has just died of a heart
attack. His organs are
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 05:21:36PM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18368186/site/newsweek/
Once again the cryonics people have been decades ahead of
the mainstream. as recently as 1993, my ass. 1983, maybe.
http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/cambridge.html
To
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 5:21 pm, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
The body on the cart is
dead, but its trillions of cells are all still alive. Becker wants to
resolve that paradox in favor of life.
er... what will they do if they get this chap's heart beating again?
Use him as an organ donor I
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:10:29PM +0530, shiv sastry wrote:
er... what will they do if they get this chap's heart beating again?
I wouldn't. I would perfuse him, and freeze him.
Use him as an organ donor I suppose.
That's a possibility, but I presume this is about throwing up
the window of
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 9:37 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote:
There is no fixed time for brain death. A lot of the damage cascades appear
hours and days after the ischemic event. A whole of them are blockable.
I would be interested to hear about what is blockable and by what means. A
classmate of mine
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:54:52PM +0530, shiv sastry wrote:
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 9:37 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote:
There is no fixed time for brain death. A lot of the damage cascades appear
hours and days after the ischemic event. A whole of them are blockable.
I would be interested to
