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Default suspended animation - 05-16-2008, 02:53 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_animation

"In July 2005 scientists at the University of Pittsburgh's Safar Center for Resuscitation Research announced they had managed to bring dogs back to life, most of them without brain damage, by draining the blood out of the dogs' bodies and putting an ice cold solution into their circulatory systems, which in turn keeps the bodies alive in stasis. After 3 hours of being clinically dead, their blood was put back into their circulatory systems, and the dogs were revived by delivering an electric shock to their hearts. The heart started pumping the blood around the frozen body, and the dogs were brought back to life. Scientists hope to begin human testing and have already begun discussions with hospitals to use "suspended animation" if everything else fails.

While most of the dogs were fine, a few of the revived dogs had severe nervous and movement coordination damage, causing them to be mentally disabled, and demonstrating behavior that was deemed "zombie" like. This has been pushed further by the media which named them "zombie dogs".[1] There is concern that this technique, if used on humans could result in brain damage similar to those suffered by some of the dogs in the experiment."


in my opinion these scientists are playing god by killing animals and bring them back to life. even though this technique could be used on heavily injured people to give the doctors more time to fix something the odd side effects actually scare me.

so what is your view on this matter?

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