Finally, something that I did have on my Bingo card! Zombies!
This article from Nature - Cellular recovery after prolonged warm ischaemia of the whole body presents research on ‘technology for restoring significant organ activity in pigs that had died of a cardiac arrest an hour before’. You might want to read that again. The pigs were dead for an hour.
This current research is based on previous research in which the team restored some brain activity to pigs after slaughter. They took severed pigs’ heads and brought back brain activity. Before the CCP virus allowed violations of virtually every human right, scientists were reviving severed heads.
Pig organs have long been eyed as a transplant source for humans.
In 2019, the FDA approved an experimental trial of live pig to live human skin grafting. Pig heart and kidney transplants to humans have also been trialed within the last year.
The upside here is perhaps they can create a larger pool of pig organs for transplant (xenotransplantation). Sounds great, right? But brain activity poses an ethical dilemma about the definition of death. Hmmm. What to do?
They were smart - this time they avoided brain activity with a nerve-blocking cocktail to prevent that pesky brain activity. Voilà! Problem solved. WTH is in that cocktail and who has the recipe?
Now maybe they will use this tech (without the nerve-blocking cocktail) to revive victims of hypothermia, drowning, or heart attacks and that could be a great boon for all. I certainly pray for better outcomes.
To harvest organs from a human being, said human must be declared ‘brain dead’. The decision on whether to keep a loved one alive on machinery or not, in order to donate organs, is faced by families every day.
How do you define ‘dead’? How does your next of kin define ‘dead’? How do scientists and doctors define ‘dead’?
There is an existing legal framework, the Uniform Determination of Death Act, from 1980. The core of the UDDA definition is:
An individual who has sustained either (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or (2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem... A determination of death must be made in accordance with accepted medical standards.
But that is being questioned. I highly recommend reading this article.
…there were two sides: One believes that death is best described as permanent, and the other believes death is irreversible.
The distinction is subtle, but critical. Fans of the latter definition argue that describing death as “permanent” doesn’t go far enough—death is only permanent if no medical action is taken, but irreversible means that nothing can be done.
This new discussion of ‘brain death’ isn’t finalized. When it is, it will still need to be adopted by each of the fifty states, but now it’s on my radar. Changes are coming.
I am a big proponent of transplants; I was once on a transplant list (didn’t get it; didn’t need it). I have a brother-in-law whose life was saved by a transplant. I am, and I encourage others to be, an organ donor. According to Donate Life California, ‘being a tissue donor can heal more than 75 lives’.
My imagined trajectory of this line of study is terrifying:
Zombie pig research – 2019
Live pig to human transplant – 2019+
Zombie pigs (← we are here)
Zombie pig to human transplant – soon?
Zombie human research
Zombie human to live human transplant
ZOMBIE HUMANS
I’m not sure I would want a zombie pig organ transplant if it means encouraging this line of discovery. Given the recklessness with which ‘gain of function’ research is still being conducted, do you trust the researchers? I do not.
Imagine what happens if they can use this ‘nerve-blocking cocktail’ to suppress brain activity in humans while keeping vital organs useable. Would you know? Would they tell you?
What are your rights here? What will TPTB decide without your consent? Will there be a profit motive? Cui bono?
Have you reviewed your living will lately? I know what my husband and I will be doing soon.
Errors and corrections are welcomed in the comments.