Death
is a necessary requirement for every living thing but most people consider death
as a single moment when a
person is present, and then he or she is not. It is the turning off of life’s
switch, typically registered as the moment that person’s heart stops beating.
Today,
around 95% of death certificates use this event to note the time of passing,
and for the vast majority of human history, this thinking reflected reality. If
a person’s heart stopped beating, he or she had been issued a death sentence
and in otherwords, there was no bringing them back but it will intrigue you to
know that the whites are crazily working hard to be able to resurrect people
who have died. This is what they call resuscitation science, some call it cryopreservation.
Now the
question is would you ever want to do anything possible to resurrect your loved
ones who just died?
While you
ponder on that here is what I found out going through BBC, would we ever be
able to bring the dead back to life?
It’s amazing
how medicine is continually getting better so much
so that Those who die today could be cured tomorrow and that can be made
possible by the help of cryopreservation.
people
are being frozen in liquid nitrogen with the hope of seeing some distant
tomorrow or call it the future.
Well If this is new to you, then I will
just tell you what cryopreservation is all about.. this is a process where cells, or
the whole tissues, or
any other substances predisposed to damage that is caused by chemical reactivity or
time are preserved by cooling to sub-zero temperatures.
Here is how these scientists do it.
The organization doing this is called Alcor and the president of
Alcor is max more. Now, the company will have an idea of when their members are
going to die so they maintain a watch list of members in failing health, and
when it seems as though the time has come they send what they call a “standby
team” to do just that – stand by the person’s bed until they die. “It could be
hours, days, or more!
Once the person in question is declared legally dead, the
process of preserving them can begin, and it’s an intense one. First, the standby
team transfers the patient from the hospital bed into an ice bed and covers
them with an ice.
Then they make use of a “heart-lung resuscitator” to get
the blood moving through the body again. They then administer 16 different
medications meant to protect the cells from deteriorating after death. Once the
patient is iced up and medicated, they move them to a place for surgery.
The next step includes draining as
much blood and bodily fluids as possible from the person and replacing them
with a solution that won’t form ice crystals – and its essentially the same kind of antifreeze solution used in
organ preservation during transplants. Then a surgeon opens up the chest to get
access to the major blood vessels, attaching them to a system that essentially
flushes out the remaining blood and swaps it with medical grade antifreeze.
Since the patient will be in a deep freeze, much of the preparatory work
involves trying to ensure that ice crystals don’t form inside the cells of the
body. Once the patient’s veins are full of this antifreeze, these medical
team can begin to cool the dead bodies down by about one
degree Celsius every hour, eventually bringing the body down to -196 Celsius after about two weeks. And then eventually the
body finds its final home for the foreseeable future: upside down in a freezer.
cryonics is unlike a lot of other futuristic technology. “it’s
not like time travel.” You have got to know
that the science of tissue regeneration is steadily advancing. But
nobody really knows when they’ll be able to wake these patients up, or if
they’ll be able to at all.
As
of today, 984 people are signed up with this organization to be preserved when
they die. People who sign up for Alcor’s services pay a yearly membership fee
of about $770. When it comes time to actually preserve a person the cost ranges
from $80,000 to preserve just the brain up to $200,000 to preserve the whole
body.
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Now if you had the
money to bring a dead one back to life, would you do that? Do you think its
even possible..?
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