RE: The Jesus Freaks Will Hate This
February 28, 2015 at 8:55 pm
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2015 at 8:59 pm by Norman Humann.)
(February 28, 2015 at 8:46 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: I ignored your article because it was written by a non-medical professional
Oh really? Ok then, here are some quotes from the article on clinical death you linked.
Quote:Prior to the invention of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), defibrillation, epinephrine injection, and other treatments in the 20th century, the absence of blood circulation (and vital functions related to blood circulation) was historically considered the official definition of death. With the advent of these strategies, cardiac arrest came to be called clinical death rather than simply death, to reflect the possibility of post-arrest resuscitation. For medical purposes, it is considered the final physical state before legal death.
Quote:Death was historically believed to be an event that coincided with the onset of clinical death. It is now understood that death is a series of physical events, not a single one, and determination of permanent death is dependent on other factors beyond simple cessation of breathing and heartbeat.
Quote:Under laboratory conditions at normal body temperature, the longest period of clinical death of a cat (after complete circulatory arrest) survived with eventual return of brain function is one hour.
Seriously.
And what about the link TRS posted?