Why is it not possible to bring a dead person back to life?
94607
It's not possible because "dead" means "brain dead".\n\nIf you mean any other standard of death then we bring people back from the dead all the time. It probably happens 10-20 times a day in any major hospital.\n\n\nBrain death can't be reversed the way you describe because the individual is the brain. \n\nIf we replaced your 'unfunctional' brain with someone else's , and by some kind of treatment brought the rest of the body back to life YOU as an individual would still be just as dead. All your memories and thoghts and feeling would have ceased to exist. You would be dead because you are your brian, and your brain is dead. Swapping your dead brain for a different functioning brain won't solve that problem.
893226
Those who are dead cannot communicate.  By Christian teachings those that are dead do not ascend to Heaven until the Second Coming.  Until then, they're dead.
332002
The body dies but the spirit lives.
629450
It's kinda difficult to bury a LIVING person. They kinda get annoyed about the dirt and stuff. =)
940443
First, you make sure that they are really and truly dead and not just unconscious or in some sort of coma.\n\nThen you drag the body to an open area or to an area where there is some sort of natural formation that you can easily recognize again or that can be easily located by rangers or anyone familiar with the area.  \n\nNext,  you make a barrier around the body with rocks, and you cover the body with medium size rocks so animals don't scavenge their remains.  You don't want to be the one explaining to the authorities why all they ever found was your friends left foot and belt buckle three miles from where you said this all happened.  \n\nBurying your friend is a bad idea, as you won't be able to bury them deep enough using only your hands or small tools to prevent animals from digging them up before you can get back with the authorities.  It's probably legal, but it really isn't a very bright idea.\n\nCarrying your friend back would be next to impossible, as dead weight is much harder to carry than a live person.  And if you have to travel back for so long that rigor would begin to set in, it would be absolutely impossible.  A noble gesture in thought, but next to impossible in reality.  Unless your dead friend is a very light dwarf,  this simply isn't going to happen.\n\nThen you turn back and go get help.
912052
They have done it with hands, but there are psychological factors that make it difficult for most people.  Patients have a hard time accepting that they have a dead person's body parts on them. Internal organs are a little different.  Looking at a different leg or hand all the time is difficult for the minds of most.  Also, the timing has to be perfect.  You cant just do that with someone who lost their leg 2 months ago.
916345
yes! A REALISTIC HONEST PERSON ON THIS GD DAMND SITE! my aunt died a few years ago and was dead for a while. she came back and said she saw nothing as well. but ask anyone else in my family, and she saw a miraculous light with angels reaching out to her. i guess the fact THAT YOU WERE BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE isn't a big enough "miracle." now you have to lie!
552187
Yes, it has happened in cases where nothing would show on any equipment and the heart had stopped. It is possible to be legally dead and brought back to life, but only in certain circumstances. Consider drowning. You can be legally dead from drowning, your heart stopped, but an electric charge will bring you back if done within a certain amount of time. There are alot of stories on this under 'near death experiences'. Look em up. Crazy stuff.
270273
I think you could only if you integrated the necessary necromantic rituals into the cloning process.  You could clone the tissue, but it would grow as a living creature.  You'd then have to euthanize it and then raise it from the dead.
621520
If a doctor or court were to sign a death certificate declaring you legally dead, and subsequently you came back to life, then you would have an argument that you had served your sentence completely.\n\nWhether such an argument would actually hold up in a court is arguable, because your revival would be in the same body with the same mind, fingerprints, memories, predispositions, etc. \n\nBut, it's an interesting question. \n\nHowever, if you only were medically dead for a very short time, and no death certificate was yet signed, then you would not have legally died, therefore you would not have served your entire sentence.
390203
To be accurate if one is brain dead, they cannot be kept alive because they are dead (braindead=dead).\n\nA brain dead person can be kept on organ support measures such as a ventilator to breath for them and medications to support the heart, etc. This is done in cases where the person is going to donate organs.\n\nYou might actually be asking how much it costs to keep someone alive who is in a coma or a vegetative state. In that case it depends on what level of nursing care they need. It can cost thousands of dollars per day.
680081
Well, we know when a person dies, their physical body is left behind for burial or cremation... and we have found bodies of mummies thousands of years old, proving them wrong, so no...physical bodies, it seems very unlikely.  Are you really asking if we carry on the same likeness?  Maybe we do...I tend to think so...if indeed there is anything else...I confess no knowledge either way.  It would be comforting to think we will recognize each other because we will "appear" reminiscent of ourselves here in life, but have you ever considered we might just be something else completely?  Not saying it's true...just playing "Devil's Advocate".
68773
Some beliefs state that some native African tribes can bring back the dead in the form of zombies.\n\nScientifically, he answer is yes at times. When people just begin dying by heart failure, they can be brought back to life by electric impulses. But for a very limited number of cases under certain circumstances. ANd only  if done at the right time.\n\nIn other words, most of the times, it's NO as an answer.
1017150
Nobody has yet been successfully frozen while alive and then brought back to awareness - much less a dead person.  Some people pay a lot of money to have just their heads frozen in liquid nitrogen, apparently on the theory that by the time they can cure what killed them, replacing the rest of the body should be a piece of cake.  I wouldn't bank on it, though - the Egyptians spent awesome amounts of time preserving bodies for eventual resurrection too, and so far as I know none of them have been reconstituted either.
17121
I wouldn't think it's ever legal to bury a living man.
678539
I want to be cremated and made into an artificial coral reef.  It's giving something back and seems lovely to me.\nThe body has no purpose after death so it's a waste of space and resources to be buried.  I've instructed my family and friends to contact these folks: http://www.eternalreefs.com/
214930
There must be a defendant in the caser or there is not case.  This means a defendant who can mount a defense.  In the case of a dead person they can't do that so there is no case.