• Question: if you could, would you make a solution to revive someone?

    Asked by me is myself to Kevin, Liz, Beccy, Rosie on 9 Jun 2017.
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      Kevin Pollock answered on 9 Jun 2017:

      I’m not sure this would be an ethical thing to do. For some people who have serious illnesses or terminal illness, they have a DNR (do not resuscitate) form completed, should they go into hospital. These people are ‘ready’ to die and so using a solution to revive them would not be appropriate.

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      anon answered on 9 Jun 2017:

      This is tricky. I would love to be able to revive loved ones, but armed with this solution would people live forever?

      The world can’t support both everyone alive now and all the children that currently living young people will grow up and have.

      Death is an awful thing, but without it there wouldn’t be space and food for future generations.

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      Rosie Fok answered on 10 Jun 2017:

      A tricky question. It depends on what they had expired from! In some situations, giving our patients the right antibiotic at the right time can act like a reviving solution.

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      Liz Buckingham-Jeffery answered on 10 Jun 2017:

      I think I agree with Rosie and Christl- this a tricky question and so I’m not sure! If such a solution existed it would give us many, many difficult choices about when, or even if, to use it.

      Even with the current medicines we have, we already end up needing to make heart-breaking decisions about whether it is suitable to keep someone alive with medicines and technology when they wouldn’t have the ability to live a ‘normal’ life. For example, have you seen the news stories about the terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard?

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