If you consider what I am about to write to be heresy, stop reading! (equivalent to "God is dead"......well.....sort of)
We can agree the most important organs in the body are the brain and the heart. Without either one, we are DOA. So as long as the heart keeps pumping and the brain keeps doing whatever brains do(dwbd), every thing is copacetic.
The brain and heart rely on each other. For example if the brain stops dwbd, the heart will eventually stop doing its job and we are dead. The reverse is true too. We are now just a statistic.
Or are we?
What about people who are revived long after the heart stops and the brain stops dwbd and similar events (in some cases longer than you think*)
No. We are missing something in our death struggles. What is it?
Before going on, let me tell you a story. As a science teacher with a projecting microscope, I recreated an experiment I had read about. I projected on the wall a slide of a dead amoeba and a live amoeba. It was easy to see they were identical in all respects, except one was dead. The question posed was "What is missing in the dead one?
I now put the same question to you. What is missing in a corpse that has something to do with the ability to revive a dead person even after the heart has stopped beating and the brain has stopped dwbd?
Perhaps the question should be, "What remains after the brain and heart jump ship (or either of them)?
Stand by. More to come in future entries.
* in 2019, doctors revived a woman who had been in cardiac arrest for 6 hours. No sign of brain damage (12 April 2023,The Guardian)
a virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked christian (Ben Franklin)
