Could it be possible that living beings can come back from the dead? While this theory may sound like something out of a science fiction movie, it is actually the work of Sam Parnia, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Langone in the United States, The Telegraph explains.
For thirty years, he has dedicated his research to death, convinced that the entire medical industry is lagging behind on the issue. According to him, death has become an outdated social convention, which no longer reflects current scientific realities.
Over the past five years of research, Sam Parnia has proven that our brains may be “recoverable not just for hours, but maybe days” after death. One of his most striking examples of this is a 2019 study from Yale University that showed how the brains of decapitated pigs could be partially resurrected up to fourteen hours after death.
When it comes to humans, Parnia explains that death could be reversed in a number of ways. He cites the example of a young woman who, in 2019, had an exceptional survival after developing hypothermia while hiking. Her heart stopped for more than six hours, “well beyond what we consider death for humans,” he says. Using an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine (which replaces the function of the heart and lungs when the body is unable to do so), her heart was resuscitated.
Death, a moving frontier
This story is not the first to suggest that death could be reversed, or at least delayed. The ability of cold to preserve bodies is already well documented, and many people have considered cryogenically freezing their bodies in the hopes of being…
- Slate.fr
