Can you be Dead for 5 hours ?

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.

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. 8)

"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.

Basic "hands only" CPR  [img alt=Vinnie Jones in the British Heart Foundation campaign height=171 width=304]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67031000/jpg/_67031594_40secbhf_hardmenmaster.373.jpg[/img] 

• [li] call 911[/li]
  

• [li] push the cardiac victim hard and fast in the centre of his or her chest[/li]
  

• [li] do it to the beat of Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees  ::LOL:: [/li]
  

• [li] if you have been trained in CPR then you can do mouth-to-mouth as well[/li]
  

Hope you Folks know that Bee Gees tune 

Only you can answer that question as to whether you can be dead for 5 hrs .. after a marathon session on the workbench of course