• Question: Is there any way a person can come back to life after die

    Asked by marta01 to Hayley, Sophie on 22 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Sophie Holles

      Sophie Holles answered on 22 Mar 2013:

      Depends what you mean by die.. we can bring people back to life after their hearts stop, but at the moment once their brain has died we can’t bring them back.

    • Photo: Hayley Evers-King

      Hayley Evers-King answered on 22 Mar 2013:

      I was actually reading about this yesterday! A doctor wrote an article about how we could definitely extend the amount of time after someone’s heart has stopped that we can bring them back to life. By using new technology to stop the cells being damaged (i.e. by circulating blood and giving the cells oxygen) people have been ‘brought back from the dead’ up to seven hours after they would normally have been declared dead! Amazing progress made by medical science!

      (The article is here but you’ll have to register for the New Scientist – It’s worth doing and free! http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729070.400-hours-after-death-we-can-still-bring-people-back.html?)

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