(September 18, 2010 at 6:26 pm)tackattack Wrote: the person was brain dead and no pulmonary activity..I don't remember for how long but I don't think it was longer then a few hours.. then they were alive again... and conscious..presumably asked for something.. like could I get a glass of water.. or something then 3-5 hours later or whatever they went into a coma and died again .. for good.
After hours of not getting any oxygen to the brain, you'd think the guy was a goner. Almost sounds like something Ambrose Bierce would write in his The Devil's Dictionary:
Quote:GNOME, n.
In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior parts of the earth and having special custody of mineral treasures. Bjorsen, who died in 1765, says gnomes were common enough in the southern parts of Sweden in his boyhood, and he frequently saw them scampering on the hills in the evening twilight. Ludwig Binkerhoof saw three as recently as 1792, in the Black Forest, and Sneddeker avers that in 1803 they drove a party of miners out of a Silesian mine. Basing our computations upon data supplied by these statements, we find that the gnomes were probably extinct as early as 1764.
