How can someone be "clinically dead" and then wake up after no life support?

[kellogs100]

I can sort of see how it would be possible for someone to be clinically dead but supported by machines and then wake up but earlier on Miami Ink, a guy said he was in a car accident and had been clinically dead for 20 mins - but went on to survive without even brain damage. Isn't that impossible?

[NWA]

american talk so much crap its untrue. what he meant to say was

'I fell off muy push bike and bumped my head'

[Prudentia]

can't answer that but I've met a lot that are brain dead and still driving around

[kellogs100]

lol!

[pusspuss]

08/06/2008
"Dead" Man Wakes Up in Morgue
19-year-old Mange Ram, a victim of the stampede at the Naina Devi shrine in India on Sunday, woke up in the morgue as doctors got ready to perform his autopsy. He said "When I woke up, I was in the middle of a row of bodies waiting for post mortem."

"My throat was parched and I asked for water. Towering over me the doctors and nursing staff at Anandpur Sahib Civil Hospital looked dazed. They must have been surprised to see a dead man come alive like that," he added.

One doctor on the pilgrimage said most people weren't checked to see if they could be saved saying "People were dumped quite haphazardly into trucks without following any procedure or checking if they were alive."

150 people died in the stampede.

[pusspuss]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/ idUKN149975820070914

[wildwood]

It may have been a mis-diagnosis. Shock can do funny things to the body.

I have always been in favour of organ donation but in reponse to your question I may have to change my mind.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/health/Heal thRepublish_166001.htm

[kellogs100]

:O Thats really shocking!!

"The editorial claimed that studies showed there was some level of activity in brain cells, even when the brain stem (which connects the brain to the spine) was not active. However, the guidelines said that dead patients do not require analgesia or sedation. It added that dead people did not require anaesthesia, and if a person was not dead, they should not be having their organs taken away."

- It seems they just don't want to admit they may have been makking a mistake. I'll be thinking twice before becoming an organ donor too!