Doctors Claim Suspended Animation Success

Philoneist.com writes to tell us the Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that US doctors have developed a process to induce hypothermia in trauma patients, shutting down their bodily functions for up to three hours. The process has been proven about 90% effective in trials with pigs and now the doctors would like the go ahead to test it on humans who would "probably die" under normal care.

Comments

What about going to heaven?

[Freexe]

Surely if your heart is stopped and your brain dead then your soul leaves your body and you go to heaven (or hell) depending on how good you lived your life.

I expect that it only works on pigs, because they are dirty animals and don't have a soul.

Re:What about going to heaven?

[carpe_noctem]

Why they celebrate birthdays and not conception days (they're so adamant at trying to control non-believers definitions of "life").

I think because singing "Happy Fuckday to You" just isn't very family-friendly, when you get down to it.

Re:What about going to heaven?

[Ruff_ilb]

some girl on the street asked if i was saved yet
  i told her i saved at the checkpoint a couple minutes back
  and can reload from there if i die
  she was confused

90% effective?

[Trigun]

I have ten peoplethat I'd like to nominate for clinical trials!

Gotta Love Indirection

[OzPeter]

A story is posted on Slashdot (US)
Of the Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Reporting a story in the New Scientist (England)
Of a bunch of scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (US)

Can we add a few more levels of indirection here??

Such as..

[Channard]

.. 'Er, why do you want to eat my brains?'

I have a business idea

[mnmn]

I'll start a company that will freeze people and keep them in safe storage for a defined period of time for a maintenance fee. People could keep money in their savings account and freeze themselves for 10 or 100 years, and wake up to collect their money. It'd feel like a long nights sleep and winning the lottery afterwards.

But they'll have to make sure the money is in the right place, with enough interest to pull them ahead of the rest of the country/world, else its all in vain. Therefore we provide long-term financial services too. :)

I suggest customers buy lots of real-estate around cities with major natural resources and good weather. Hopefully they wont wake right after WWIII to realize their lands cost nothing.

Invesing in gold is not a bad idea either for the long term.

My freezer can take 2 persons. Who wants to be first??

More interesting headline would have been:

[geekoid]

"Doctors from 1742 Claim Suspended Animation Success"