• Question: Do you think in the future we will be able to bring people back from the dead using scientific technology?

    Asked by 573eura27 to Theo, Philip, Kerry, Ali, Alex on 17 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Alex Pool

      Alex Pool answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      I don’t think so, as the proteins in your cells start to deteriorate really really quickly, so unless the machine was turned on at the moment of death then I don’t think it’d ever be possible. Happy to be proved wrong though…

    • Photo: Alison Thomson

      Alison Thomson answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      No I don’t think so. I agree with Alex – as soon as you die your body starts to decompose, so I don’t think there would be any way to bring a partially decomposed body back to life!

    • Photo: Philip Ratcliffe

      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      It depends a little on what you mean by “dead”.
      Someone who has just technically died (i.e. their heart stopped beating) can be kept alive artificially with machines.
      If they’ve been dead for a while then all sorts of irreversible things happen and that’s it.
      Then, of course, there’s the centuries old question of the soul: when does it die? If you’re a believer then it doesn’t but it does leave the body – if you’re not (like me) then it just dies too.

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