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Death Will Soon Be Reversible

“We may soon be rescuing people from death’s clutches hours, or even longer, after they have actually died.”
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“We may soon be rescuing people from death’s clutches hours, or even longer, after they have actually died.” So claims Sam Parnia, a researcher at Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York and the author of Erasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death. 

For a window into Parnia’s ideas about the science of resuscitation, check out this interview with him published on Der Spiegel. 

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