Those who have come back to life

in #news6 years ago (edited)

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The modern medicine would have you believe that we have advanced to incredible levels of understanding how the human body works and how to fix problems within it. And to a degree that is indeed the case - in comparison to where we were even a mere 50 years ago.

But yet our knowledge is still lacking severely as medical professionals still sometimes fail to even tell a dead person from one still alive. Recently that happened in South Africa to a female victim of a bad road accident[1]. Three people were declared dead on the scene by the ambulance rescue team; yet one of them was observed to be breathing after she was delivered to a local morgue and was subsequently rescued.

Down the road from us, in Ashland, Massachusetts, near Boston, a woman that was found immobile, without a pulse and other vital signs, in a cold bathtub was later observed making gurgling noises while in a body bag. She too was subsequently revived and rescued[2].

So in summary - pronouncing somebody dead is not as easy as you may think. And should you ever encounter a medical professional who is too confident and making claims to omniscience - well, you can certainly inform them that any such claims are hardly justified given how even telling a dead person from a living one is something modern medicine still gets wrong on occasion.

References

  1. A Woman Declared Dead Was Put in a Morgue Freezer - Until Someone Noticed Her Breathing

    Cleve R. Wootson Jr, The Washington Post, 4 July 2018

  2. Funeral Director Saves A Life
    CBSNews.com, 25 January 2001

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I just got the chills
Omg!
Imagine getting cremated and u wake up the second before
I’m gonna have nightmares tonight 😩

Well, there's many nightmarish scenarios in the world.

Actually, the cremation scenario above is probably one of the least nightmarish - that oven runs at about 2,000C if memory serves, that sort of temperature would kill you very quickly. Now if you are buried in the ground while still alive - you will suffocate for sure but that is not going to be a quick and easy death.

Now I’m gonna sleep well haha
😘

Thanks
Thanks a lot 😡

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Horrifying! Imagine waking up in a grave.

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