Archive for the ‘Defying Death’ Category
Dead Man Walking….Into His Own Funeral
9, Nov 2009Dead wrong: Man attends own funeral after mix-up over body’s ID On the holiday known as the Day of the Dead, a Brazilian bricklayer walked into his own funeral. It sounds like the beginning of a joke: So a guy walks into his own funeral….but apparently it wasn’t so funny for the friends and relatives [...]
Questions and Answers about Moment of Death: AWARE Project Uses Technology to Investigate “Out-of-Body Experiences” Today – MSNBC.com (September 28, 2009) Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy According to the Today show’s Q&A, the Awareness During Resuscitation study — AWARE for short — is investigating “what happens to the [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Afterlife|Defying Death
- Tags: definition of death, moment of death, research, video
This American Life: Mistakes Were Made originally aired April 18, 2008. It’s the late 1960s, and in the new technology of cryonics, a California TV repairman named Bob sees an opportunity to help people cheat death. But freezing dead people so scientists can reanimate them in the future is a lot harder than it sounds. [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Technology|Defying Death
- Tags: cryonics, podcast
RadioLab: Unconventional Ways to Stay Alive
9, Jun 2009RadioLab: Stayin’ Alive originally aired June 2, 2009. This week on the podcast we take a look at four unconventional ways to stay alive. We talk to geneticist George Church, who originally appeared in our So Called Life Show, biologist Bernd Heinrich, neuroscientist David Eagleman, and finally, we visit a CPR class.
- By: John
- In: Defying Death
- Tags: podcast