June 11th, 2008 9:18 AM Eastern
Man Wakes Up After Heart Stops for 1.5 Hours
by Jessica Doyle
If your heart stops for an hour-and-a half, are you dead? There’s a walking, talking French man who might disagree with you.
The 45-year-old man suffered a massive heart attack and rescuers used cardiac massage to try and revive him without success before transferring him to a nearby hospital.
He was revived just as doctors were preparing to remove his organs for transplants, now fueling ethical debates in France about when a person is dead.
Tags: cardiac massage, doctors, ethics, France, heart attack, organ donation, revival
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I want to know if the man had an NDE? Does he remember anything while “dead”? Surely God had a hand in this.
MARANATHA!
I think this just goes on to further question, When is a person “really” dead? I mean, it is kind of scary to think about. I wonder how many thousands of people could have been revived an hour or maybe longer after their hear stops? This is crazy to think about.
The true story here is not the baby being born from an oblivious mom… but the fact that she had to spend three weeks in another town, not her own, beacuse of lack of beds in her hometown hospital.
The moral of the story? Universal health care at work.