A new trend to harvest transplant organs from people whose hearts have just stopped - but may not be yet brain dead - has underlined the "pressing need" for federal legislation to define exactly when someone has perished, a leading medical ethicist argues. picked by Bingo 4 months ago tags Ethicist seeks law truly dead |
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The new version of Dead.net, the fan site for Dead Heads, which is soon to be released, will be a full blown social network similar to Myspace. 4 comments edit related share plime.comMershaullk, don't leave us!!! picked by suebe 2 years ago |
They're All Dead: Christopher Keeley posts lots of photos of and commentary about the many friends he has made and lost during his years in the intervention business. Everyone pictured is dead and includes the reasons they died. Some of the pictures contain nudity and are NSFW. picked by doggylives 2 years ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
Here's where to find out. The Dead People Server is a database of interesting celebrities who are long dead or newly dead. picked by suebe 3 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
The living dead aren't just characters in low-budget horror movies, according to a new book that details the history of premature burial and the technology used to detect death. picked by suebe 3 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
Zach Dunlap says he feels "pretty good," four months after he was declared brain dead and doctors were about to remove his organs for transplant. picked by buddha 2 years ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
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The latest weapon in the battle over the legitimacy of some functional brain scanning studies is a dead fish. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago 0 comments edit related share weird |
Heavy coffee drinkers are more likely to have hallucinations or feel "the presence of dead people", according to new research. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago 14 comments edit related share plime.com |
A judge has granted a mother's request to have someone harvest sperm from her dead son's body, so he can have children. picked by iamamaniac 8 months ago 5 comments edit related share world |
Awesome flash animations for Worth1000.com's Battle of the Animators. Seven episodes in all! picked by capriccio 3 years ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
The case of a man whose heart stopped beating for 90 minutes only to revive just as doctors were preparing to remove his organs for transplants is fuelling ethical debates in France about when a person is dead. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 6 comments edit related share science |
An Oklahoma man declared brain dead shocks everyone when he suddenly reaches for the nurse who was prepping him for organ donation. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
In order to live, they will take you one by one ... and no one will hear you scream! 0 comments edit related share plime.comIt's a 1973 movie. I just posted because everyone is posting about death/dead people. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago |
maybe its not dead, it says some people still speak it. in my opinion it's an unborn language 0 comments edit related share world*it was intended as a world language, FAIL* picked by picklebob12 2 years ago |
Brad Renfro, the former one-to-watch whose acting work was often overshadowed by reports of drug abuse and legal troubles, was found dead Tuesday morning at his Los Angeles home. He was 25. picked by punthe 2 years ago 12 comments edit related share entertainment |
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A federal aviation spokesman says at least seven people are dead after two medical helicopters collided in mid-air in Arizona. 4 comments edit related share plime.comIan Gregor of the Federal Aviation Administration says three others are in critical condition after the collision Sunday afternoon near a Flagstaff hospital. picked by bevissimo 1 year ago |
A 2-year-old boy was pronounced dead after he was found unresponsive beneath his passed-out mother -- who investigators say admitted she'd been drinking. 13 comments edit related share plime.com*No. Not Florida. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Police say 21-year-old Heath Benedict was found dead on his couch Wednesday evening in his Villages of San Jose home. They do not suspect that any drugs or alcohol were involved in his death, or that foul play is suspected. picked by ImNotBlue 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share sports |
A car parked illegally in Pico Rivera was ticketed at around 11am. At 7:50pm an elderly man was found dead in that car. It's not at present known if the man was in the car, dead or alive, when the ticket was issued picked by pocksucket 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share weird |
Dead Scientists - Working for Top Secret Bio-Warfare Projects Produces Inordinately Bad Luck... or Something Else? picked by nateebiinature 3 months ago 0 comments edit related share science |
The gruesome discoveries continued Friday as authorities found as many as 150 dead animals in basement freezers in the same Dearborn house where at least 112 live dogs -- all Chihuahuas and Chihuahua mixes -- were discovered in filthy conditions beginning Wednesday. picked by kakana 4 months ago 2 comments edit related share weird |