Recently, in Hsinchu City, Taiwan Province, China, there was a "grass Suga human life" incident, the party is a 48-year-old man living alone, accidentally fell into a coma after taking a bath, friends can not contact him, so they dialed the fire telephone, firefighters arrived, through the way of measuring the pulse, found that the man has no heartbeat, so, did not call the emergency number, but directly contacted the funeral home.
Unexpectedly, after the funeral home staff arrived, in the process of "collecting the body", the man actually recovered his heartbeat and was subsequently taken to the hospital, but because of the delay in the best treatment time, the end was still death.
Speaking of which, similar things have happened at home and abroad, so why can people have no heartbeat but can still suddenly "resurrect"? In clinical medicine, what is the criterion for judging whether a person is dead? Will there be a situation of "burial of the living"?
This incident occurred in July 2015, the place of the incident was in a funeral home in Hefei, Anhui Province, China, when the man who was "resurrected after death" was seriously injured after falling from a high place, and he was always in a coma, and after being sent to the hospital for rescue, there was still no sign of improvement, so the family gave up treatment for some reasons, and died shortly after being discharged home.
So, the family contacted the funeral home, but did not expect that the man was so difficult not to die, before he was about to be cremated, he suddenly resurrected, and then his breathing and heartbeat returned to normal.
A similar situation occurred in Nanchang in 2012. At that time, a man in his 50s was also declared dead after ineffective rescue, but he was strangely resurrected in the funeral home, and then he was rushed to the hospital.
In foreign countries, there are also many such bizarre events. For example, in 2014, a 78-year-old man in Mississippi, usa, also after the coroner checked his pulse, confirmed that he was dead, and then was sent to the funeral home, but did not expect to wake up in the body bag, the staff found that there was movement to check, only to find that the person was not dead.
What is even more outrageous is that in Sichuan, China, there is another man who was frozen in the funeral home for 2 days, and when the body was about to be disposed of, he was strangely resurrected, and after the body recovered, the whole person became very healthy.
It can be said that people who are resurrected in funeral homes are not so rare, and these things that seem very incredible to us are really happening around us.
Clinically, whether a person is dead is mainly determined by looking at breathing and heartbeat, and if both stop, then the person is equal to death.
However, from the clinical pronouncement of death to the real sense of death, there is a transition period, because in the heartbeat and breathing stopped for 5-8 minutes, although the life characteristics have disappeared, but the human body is not completely dead, the brain is still running, at the same time, there are some extremely weak metabolic activities in the body.
Until 8 minutes later, if it is impossible to rescue back, then the death of the body will be irreversible, at this time, you can officially declare death, you can prepare for the aftermath.
However, these situations we mentioned above, in fact, their heartbeat and breathing, have stopped for more than 8 minutes, or even longer, before suddenly waking up, so does this mean that there is a big loophole in the current clinical criteria for judging death?
This is because, in medicine, there is still a possibility - suspended animation. The life characteristics of this type of person have stopped, and after examination, they are also considered to have died, but they are in a state of suspended animation, usually caused by severe lack of oxygen in the brain, thus falling into a situation where life and death are difficult to distinguish.
Therefore, this kind of resurrection in the funeral home is because these people do not really die, for example, as mentioned above, the man in Taiwan who woke up again during the funeral home, he initially had trouble breathing because he was lying face down, which led to his state of suspended animation.
In the process of carrying, because he was turned over, face up, at this time, the outside air poured into the nasal cavity, but also let him re-inhale oxygen, so that by chance, it was "resurrected" again.
This is also why in the past, when medicine was not developed, after the death of people, the more exquisite families would not be hastily buried, but would first park the body for 3-7 days, one of the reasons was that it was worried that the people who did not die would be buried.
So why is it that medicine is so well developed that it still happens? This is because there is mainly no unified standard for the current clinical judgment of brain death, so it will lead to such a thing.