I cannot express how bad of an idea this is.
SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.
US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.
Pittsburgh’s Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject’s veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution.
The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity.
But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock.
I’ve seen enough horror movies to know that this is not going to end well.
June 29th, 2005 at 9:11 am
Nothing suggests that they would be able to use this technique to revive someone who has died very recently. Those people who are paying for cryogenic freezing upon death aren’t going to find a deal here.
If this ever becomes popular, it will undoubtedly become an issue of, should a person who *might* die of unnatural causes be allowed to risk suicide in order to possibly survive? And if they aren’t conscious, should the family or doctor be able to decide this treatment?
June 29th, 2005 at 10:00 am
Have these people not read (or watched- although the book was far superior) Stephen King’s Pet Cemetery??? I mean…really…once smoething dies and you bring it back- it doesn’t come back right.
June 29th, 2005 at 10:03 pm
I’m more worried about a Night of the Comet scenario - big hair, bad acting, hoop earrings, print leggings under miniskirts, etc.