Another Day: Cheating Death
msteetee34
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There was a really interesting program on CNN today. It was with Dr. Sanjuay Gupta about people who had actually died and they were brought back from the dead. They focused on people who had suffered cardiac arrest. They told a few stories about people who actually died and brought back. There was a story about a 29 year old woman who slipped on ice while skiing. She landed head first. Anyway she was stuck and her friends help to get her out. Her body temp dropped to 56 degrees. However, when she was taken to the hospital her heart started to beat. I believe they said she was dead for 3 hours. The doctors on the show were saying that cold can actually cause death or it can save a life. When the body is cold they were saying something about the brain being able to survive with lack of oxygen. The lady is now fine and back to skiing. There was also a boy that went into cardiac arrest but they put his body on ice cooled it down to slow down the death process. I was like wow this is amazing. They showed this squirrell and they have cold body temps. They get little oxygen but they can still survive the winter. They said that using cold can keep an animal alive that has lost blood from dying instead of 5 minutes they could expand the time to 3 hours. Basically they were saying how the cold and slowing things down can increase survival. There is a doctor in Seattle named Dr. Roth working on an injection of cold fluid that can injected into the human body to slow down death process. He said the goal is to have the patient's time to slow down while we remain in real time. Then he said his favorite movie is the princess bride and he's chasing after the princess bride because one of the characters in the movie were thought to be dead but they weren't. He wants that happy ending. Then at the end of the progaram Dr. Sanjuay Gupta said that the common factor in all these cases was that no one gave up. They kept saying it over and over Never give up. When Janet was on Oprah she said that you never give up when Oprah was asking about MJ and the interventions the family took. It just seem weird they had this special on today. I'm not saying that MJ could have done something like this but the fact that doctors are saying things like this are possible is a trip. After MJ died remember they kept talking about him being frozen and discussing his brain. Also the doctor who's trying to enhance this method lives in Seattle and on Dave Dave's myspace one of his favorite places is in Seattle. He has a pic in the place it's called McPhees. What if MJ were in Seattle and he heard of this doctor. Maybe did some research of his own about cardiac arrest. Who knows? Anyway it was interesting show. It's also weird because the Princess Bride has been on encore channels for like the past two weeks now. I believe it was on today as well.
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Cryonics
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Technicians prepare a patient for cryopreservation.Cryonics (from Greek kryos- meaning icy cold) is the low-temperature preservation of humans and animals who can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine, with the hope that healing and resuscitation may be possible in the future. Cryopreservation of people or large animals is not reversible with current technology. The stated rationale for cryonics is that people who are considered dead by current legal or medical definitions may not necessarily be dead according to the more stringent information-theoretic definition of death.[1] It is proposed that cryopreserved people might someday be recovered by using highly advanced future technology.[2]
The future repair technologies assumed by cryonics are still theoretical and not widely known or recognized. Cryonics is, therefore, regarded with skepticism by most scientists and physicians, although some do support it.[3] As of 2010, only around 200 people have undergone the procedure since it was first proposed in 1962.[citation needed] In the United States, cryonics can only be legally performed on humans after they have been pronounced legally dead.
Cryonics procedures ideally begin within minutes of cardiac arrest, and use cryoprotectants to prevent ice formation during cryopreservation. However the idea of cryonics also includes preservation of people after longer post-mortem delays because of the possibility that brain structures encoding memory and personality may still persist or be inferable. Whether sufficient brain information still exists for cryonics to work under some preservation conditions may be intrinsically unprovable by present knowledge.[4] Therefore, most proponents of cryonics see it as a speculative intervention with prospects for success that vary widely depending on circumstances.
Also in Scream, it appears that Michael and Janet are waking up from some kind of suspended animation, or cold hibernation, for long distance space travel.
I don't believe Michael had his body deep-frozen in real life though. Maybe something similar but safer, which we haven't understood yet.
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