Do you think it would ever be possible to bring someone back from the dead? How would that work?

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timabe10 (Banned) Mar 31 @ 10:39pm

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timabe10 (Banned) Mar 31 @ 10:44pm

Heaven 👍

Hammer Of Evil Mar 31 @ 10:45pm

we'd need a few more quantum leaps in technology to do reanimation. lol.

stoptheremakes Mar 31 @ 10:48pm

no, but there are companies that keep corpses frozen though. see: Alcor Life Extension Foundation and The Cryonics Institute for cryopreservation

i really don't know how you would bring the personality and self-awareness back though.

↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect Mar 31 @ 10:55pm

If under 4 minutes you defib them.

GuerillaTactix Mar 31 @ 10:59pm

If I was dead and someone brought me back I'd be pissed. You mean I need to die multiple times or work more? Forget that noise.

timabe10 (Banned) Mar 31 @ 11:00pm

Originally posted by GuerillaTactix:
If I was dead and someone brought me back I'd be pissed. You mean I need to die multiple times or work more? Forget that noise.

stoptheremakes Mar 31 @ 11:06pm

true, at what age and health status do you get brought back in? and what about people with really permanent or long-lasting impairments like 1 blind eye or lost half their brain or something?

aqua493xd Mar 31 @ 11:33pm

It would likely depend on how the person died in the first place. If it were possible, death would merely be a condition. You identify what caused the death, and then try to repair the affected body parts or systems. For example, if someone died of a heart attack, you could in theory revive the person with a new heart.

Its complicated though as very shortly after death, the rest of the bodies organs and systems will shut down and cease to function. So you would not only need to repair the affected body parts and systems, but also pretty much everything else too.

Then there is the question of whether that person would even be the same person. There would also be questions regarding the "soul". Would the soul return to a revived body? Or would it just be an empty, albeit living, husk?

Perhaps one way to actually test this idea out is to clone every organ and limb from the original body, perform a brain transplant (which would be practically impossible) and hope for the best.

Test the idea on a few rats and we may get an answer.

tom tomorrow Mar 31 @ 11:35pm

Depends how long they've been dead for. The brain starts to quickly deteriorate when it stops getting oxygen. We could probably "reanimate" a person. That part isn't too difficult. Rebuilding the brain, though... we're quite a ways off that kind of technology or understanding.

timabe10 (Banned) Mar 31 @ 11:36pm

Originally posted by tom volta:
Depends how long they've been dead for. The brain starts to quickly deteriorate when it stops getting oxygen. We could probably "reanimate" a person. That part isn't too difficult. Rebuilding the brain, though... we're quite a ways off that kind of technology or understanding.

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