About that whole death thing...

"but 80 percent of them were discharged from the hospital alive. In one study of traditional methods, the figure was about 15 percent."
nice. But the whole death thing is not what I was expecting...
 
Sooo... basically doctors are now trying to prevent death. Wow, this truly boggles the mind.
 
Well, they've tried to prevent death countless times before obviously. They're just trying to get more effective at it...
 
Sounds really awesome! If they can help people who have gone into a temporary 'death' state, then it'd mean a ****load less people would die.
Wouldn't this also mean you could theoretically shut off oxygen/nutrients to tumours, then suddenly jolt them with oxygen and they'd just kill themselves?
 
There is a certain nootropic drug (i have forgotten which, sorry) that if you take regularly extends the length of time you can be dead for and then reactivated to about 20mins instead of just a couple of minutes as with current tech.
 
This is definitely amazing talk. It would be great to see where they go with this. We are learning more and more about the human body every day. It's just mind boggling that we don't completely understand our bodies yet.

damn you science for being so slow!
 
Wow... so now we're mastering the art of bringing people back to life?? Score one for science!!
 
Que religious nuts saying "How dare you play god!" :p

But seriously now this is great news.
 
Remus said:
Que religious nuts saying "How dare you play god!" :p

But seriously now this is great news.
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"How dare you play god!!"
"I dare quite easily, actually.."*Shops christian nut*
*brings christian nut back to life*
"AHA!"
 
CyberPitz said:
"How dare you play god!!"
"I dare quite easily, actually.."*Shops christian nut*
*brings christian nut back to life*
"AHA!"
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hahhahahahaha lol "wheres your after life now bitch ????" .

its really ironic how the one thing we need to survive , is the very thing that kills us. im glad they're actually making progress in this regard although i wonder how ethical it is to experiment on
clinically dead patients.
 
I'd imagine there's no "ethics" to it whatsoever. They're clinically dead, so either they get brought back to life or they stay dead :p
 
I always did wonder why ppl died so much from heart attacks.
 
That's pretty incredible news, it's weird to think they have been doing it wrong all this time.
 
Remus said:
Que religious nuts saying "How dare you play god!" :p
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I'm no religious nut.

I used to think that a heart attack meant you would die. I didn't know it wasn't necessarily fatal.

Anyway... who wants to live forever? The prospect is very unnappealing to me. I bet by the time I'm eighty, I'll be trying to sneak out of the home and in front of a bus.
 
Cool, but yeh there is no way in hell I would want to live forever, you have to get fed up of it at some point.
 
To be fair, if they ever get to the bottom of this, I'd still prefer not to have a heart attack.
 
I don't know why everyone is anti-immortality here, going on about how we'd all get bored of life and actually age (going out on a limb here, but natural aging is gonna be the next to go) and stuff.

Just take a second and remember that we're on a forum for a videogame. There are LOTS of videogames. There will be LOTS of them in the future. Personally I plan on not being bored ever.

Plus, bionic vaginas and rocket boots n' stuff.
 
Que-Ever said:
I'm no religious nut.



Anyway... who wants to live forever?
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[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo52T7uKOJU[/YOUTUBE]
OOOOOOOOoooooOOOOOOOOO

Wouldn't this also mean you could theoretically shut off oxygen/nutrients to tumours, then suddenly jolt them with oxygen and they'd just kill themselves?
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Too difficult?
 
living forever is not as boring as you would think, at least once you start forgeting things anyway. and think of it this way, once your thousands of years old you could easily rob the cradle every time, even if they are 153.
 
French Ninja said:
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo52T7uKOJU[/YOUTUBE]
OOOOOOOOoooooOOOOOOOOO
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I just watched Highlander a week ago.

And if i lived forever i would be freaking rich, If I just keep some stuff made today, i could sell it all a thousand years from now and make billions.:cheese:
 
Isn't the world's population bloated enough already? :hmph:
 
Very cool, cant imagine how many more people could survive
 
dekstar said:
Wouldn't this also mean you could theoretically shut off oxygen/nutrients to tumours, then suddenly jolt them with oxygen and they'd just kill themselves?
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I think the mitochondria in cancer cells have been "shut off" so they don't perform this function, and so the cancer cells don't self-destruct right away. That miracle drug that would apparently cure the majority of cancers works on the principle of turning the mitochondria back on in cancer cells so that they kill themselves.

Not really sure though :cheese:
 
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