Resuscitation can bring back the clinically dead people

It is now hot news in several western media which airs this news. According to the claim by a new book, resuscitation can bring back the clinically dead people. Though it sounds weird, the book has been authored by Dr. Sam Parnia, an Intensivist and Director of resuscitation research, Stony Brook University School of Medicine. 

Dr. Sam wrote his findings in the book, Erasing Death: The science that is rewriting the boundaries between Life and Death.

The development of medical science in the last decade has made us understand the actual underlying processes in death. Actually, after death, a human becomes a corpse when the brain cells starts to die, Dr. Sam said.

Most of us think that the brain death happens within four to five minutes. We now understand that the brain cells are alive up to eight hours after the last breath. A human becomes a corpse only after the complete death of brain cells, that is, after eight hours.

Any trained critical care expert can restart the heart functions by resuscitation, and bring back a person from death, he added.

Similar findings were previously reported by Dr. Jan Bondeson, a researcher who wrote an infamous book, Buried Alive: The terrifying history of our most primal fear, in 2001.

Even before two centuries, in 1978, a French physician, Francois Thierry published a book with similar findings. In his book, he stated that many patients do not die for some time even after the onset of cardinal signs of death.

In his book, Francois suggested for waiting lounges in mortuaries to monitor the corpses for some time, and to make sure they were actually died. Francois suggested that appearance of flies over the corpse and bloating of the stomach were the symptoms of actual death and then the corpses were sent for burial.

The recent book of Dr. Parnia attracted some controversies that he is trying to advocate the theory of life after death or near-death experiences. However, his findings are known by millions of physicians over decades. The experts believe that a person never dies immediately after cessation of heart beat, and the line between life and death is dark and gloomy.