dailymail.co.uk— When paramedics managed to restart Keith Rosser's heart they could have been forgiven if they had felt a touch of pride for saving his life.
Oct 23, 2007View in Crawl 4
Sgoogle, my comment obviously went over your head, which was in regard to how horrible the burn marks are and not on whether someone would choose the one over the other.
Ergo... heart stopped is not "death". Clinical brain death is not "death" either. If you've recovered from it (and people do) then it's not death. Death is definitively, that from which you cannot recover. Irretrievable breakdown of the bodily systems and (hopefully) loss of ALL consciousness.Bear this in mind if you're a big supporter of compulsory organ donation after "death". Most of the "useful" organs cannot be taken when you are truly "dead". Whether or not you have consciousness is a moot point which, unfortunately, you can only personally conform as your eyes are being gouged out and heart/lungs and kidneys being excised (without anaesthetic btw).If you strongly *believe* the contrary then I'm still not sure how much "belief" you're going to need to make this into a tolerable experience should you be wrong!. <a class="user" href="http://blog.myspace.com/dead_inside_u">http://blog.myspace.com/dead_inside_u</a> 18 Sep 2007 - (oops!, ouch!).
whataboutdaveOct 24, 2007
If 12 successful shocks happened regularly it wouldn't be on Digg.
herkaleesOct 24, 2007
That man beat my father by one - summer of 2005, worst two days of my life.
biggrzOct 25, 2007
Sgoogle, my comment obviously went over your head, which was in regard to how horrible the burn marks are and not on whether someone would choose the one over the other.
snowball69Oct 26, 2007
Ergo... heart stopped is not "death". Clinical brain death is not "death" either. If you've recovered from it (and people do) then it's not death. Death is definitively, that from which you cannot recover. Irretrievable breakdown of the bodily systems and (hopefully) loss of ALL consciousness.Bear this in mind if you're a big supporter of compulsory organ donation after "death". Most of the "useful" organs cannot be taken when you are truly "dead". Whether or not you have consciousness is a moot point which, unfortunately, you can only personally conform as your eyes are being gouged out and heart/lungs and kidneys being excised (without anaesthetic btw).If you strongly *believe* the contrary then I'm still not sure how much "belief" you're going to need to make this into a tolerable experience should you be wrong!. <a class="user" href="http://blog.myspace.com/dead_inside_u">http://blog.myspace.com/dead_inside_u</a> 18 Sep 2007 - (oops!, ouch!).