The heart beating is not a good definition of being alive in my opinion. The heart stopping temporarily doesn't mean you died, you were just in terribly grave danger.

If a person is defined by their heart, what does that make a heart transplant?

utterly useless definition.

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Brain oxygen levels are the most important one iirc

[–] DeceasedPassenger@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Because once those hit a certain danger threshold there's not much to 'bring back' right? I vaguely recall reading that somewhere.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Brains fail catastrophically and unrecoverably pretty quickly after being starved of oxygen. I don't like the chances of the frozen people who hope to be reanimated in the future

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Some of them make for deliciously cursed slushies though

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