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Source:  BBC

By William Kremer: BBC World Service

A doctor says people can be revived several hours after they have seemingly died. Should this change the way we think about death?

Carol Brothers can’t recall the exact moment she died.

“I know it must have been a Friday around lunchtime, because we’d got back from shopping,” the 63-year old says. “I can’t remember getting out of the car.”

Her husband David has much clearer memories of that day three months ago. He opened the front door of their Wiltshire home and saw Carol lying down, gasping for breath, the colour rapidly draining from her face.

Carol had had a cardiac arrest – her heart had stopped beating. Luckily, an elderly neighbour knew the rudiments of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and quickly began to work on her chest.

Paramedics soon took over, and at a point between 30 and 45 minutes after her collapse – no-one noted the exact time – Carol’s heart started beating again.

“While 45 minutes is absolutely remarkable and a lot of people would have written her off, we now know there are people who have been brought back, three, four, five hours after they’ve died and have led remarkably good quality lives,” says Dr Sam Parnia, the director of resuscitation research at Stony Brook University in New York.

Most people regard cardiac arrest as synonymous with death, he says. But it is not a final threshold.

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