My Conspiracy Theories Made Flesh...

SO! Some of you may remember one of my last posts... About how zombies, however irrational, are entirely possible. Surely, there were many of you who didn't believe my philo(scoff)ical theory that scientists are actively involved in what is called "reanimation research," or, simply put: killing things, then bringing them back to life. To those of you who laugh at my uncited evidence, here is an article I found on the subject.

"In a series of nightmarish experiments straight out of a horror flick, scientists at a leading university have killed dozens of dogs — then brought them back to life.

The hapless pooches, who have their blood drained for up to three hours, are being reanimated in a bid to develop the use of suspended animation to help humans who are injured in combat or crime."

This is the point where I remind you that reanimation research could go a long way toward curing paralysis, reviving coma patients, or elongating human lifespans long enough for people to realize their own futility.

"In the unsettling tests, dogs of all breeds and sizes are put under, their veins drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution which drops their body temperature from a normal 101 degrees to near freezing."

"That puts them in a state of extreme hypothermia, making them scientifically dead — with no breathing, heartbeat or brain activity. But their tissues and vital organs are preserved.

The corpses are then brought back to life by returning the blood to their bodies, giving them pure oxygen and applying electric shocks to restart their hearts.

For a long time, the test subjects couldn’t be brought back to life after more than two hours. But recently, the researchers added glucose and more oxygen to the blood and have pushed the maximum time the dogs can be dead to three hours."

Now, three hours isn't all that long to be dead, considering that the coma patients that this would theoretically benefit would be unresponsive for much longer before this option were appropriate to explore. But how long do you suppose it takes for the soul to leave the body after death? Remember "Pet Sematary" by Stephen King? These animals were brought back to life, but they had changed inexplicably for the worse. It is my supposition that the soul would leave the body much sooner- like immediately- yet scientists, as wily and unconcerned as they are, would push the bar further...

“We’ve tried to get it to four hours, but we just haven’t been able to do it,” Kochanek told The Post.

What sort of thing could we expect from a reanimated doggy-corpse? Seriously, is there anything good which can come of it?

Nope. Not really. Can we really expect to kill an animal, only to bring it back to life ANY amount of time afterward without losing every thing but the physical body? Would the animal (or person, if you remember the purpose behind the research is) return to us, just as they had been before?

"The lucky ones turn out to be perfectly normal with no brain damage — although other dogs are stricken with serious physical or behavioral problems."

I understand that this isn't an exact science, but do you need to mess with it, at all? Seriously, sometimes pets and people die, sometimes they are rendered comatose; it's nature. Do we really want to try and reanimate their dead corpses seeking a minute chance that they will be returned to us exactly the same as before? Is it a risk we are willing to take? I hope this aids your decision:

Or how about this?


Or! Oh, yeah, I'm going there... THIS:


And that's all I've got. Hopefully my images here have spoken for themselves.

P.S. Yes, I can fuel all of my views with Stephen King's works to back me up.