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From: Kennita Watson <>
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:45:58 -0700

 From http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1842627,00.html

> How is technology challenging the perception that death is a moment?
>
> Nowadays, we have technology that's improved so that we can bring  
> people back to life. In fact, there are drugs being developed right  
> now - who knows if they'll ever make it to the market - that may  
> actually slow down the process of brain-cell injury and death.  
> Imagine you fast-forward to 10 years down the line; and you've  
> given a patient, whose heart has just stopped, this amazing drug;  
> and actually what it does is, it slows everything down so that the  
> things that would've happened over an hour, now happen over two  
> days. As medicine progresses, we will end up with lots and lots of  
> ethical questions.

Quite so!  Has anybody heard details of any of these drugs?

Live long and prosper,
Kennita

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