Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Time of Death and Lymphocyte Behavior

Sept 11, 2011 was the 10th anniversary in the USA of the plane crashes into the twin towers and the pentagon. Strangely when I woke up that morning I got a flashback to 2 emails that I had sent the previous day to Winnipeg’s professional hockey and football teams regarding the possibility of using a maintenance dose of hydergine as a protection against developing concussions following head injuries (see my posted blog ) Then I experienced another unexplained flashback to an email I had sent Dr. Frank Plummer at the new level four Infectious lab. That latter email included film footage of the behaviour of human lymphocytes in blood culture. Briefly this email had an attachment of movie clips of the effect of temperature, duration of blood cultures, mixing blood cultures, addition of PHA (phytohaemagglutin) , and other parameters on lymphocyte behavior..
The most exciting experiments were those on viability where I found that even after several days of blood culturing the lymphocytes still exhibited many of their "living" properties namely phagocytosis, foot appendage movements and attachments, lymphoblastosis, and rosette formation .
So if lymphocytes were still alive in such cultures for days after removal from the host maybe this also occurs within the body after the individual is pronounced dead. The obvious experiment to support this thesis would just require a phlebotomy in the morgue followed by blood culturing.
Maybe the spontaneous revival of human bodies sometimes witnessed in the morgue after they are pronounced dead occurs because of this phenomenon. This begs the question when does death really occur ,is it when we dont have a pulse or respiration or is it when lymphocytes stop moving which may nor occur until a week later.?
Coroners may wish to add this test to their criteria of cause of death, and/or to confirm that death has really occurred. Theologians may be tempted to speculate that the soul does not leave the body until such lyphocytic behavior has stopped. Funeral services within 24 hours maybe are being conducted on people who are still alive!

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