Are some people thought to be dead really ...not?

Question

I believe that science is far far beyond what we know. Does anyone think that there is truly famous people still living , breathing who were thought to have died years and years ago ?

Does anyone believe in the Russian experiments to revive a severed dog head, or such things ? Does any believe that science has found a way to keep these people around ?

May sound absurd but is Einstein around, etc etc.

Answer 1

yes.

but elvis is dead

Answer 2

Occasionally (though not very often) you hear stories about people who went missing and were presumed dead but were later found alive. Just recently, a man who was presumed to have died in a flood in Colorado in 1976 has been found alive in Oklahoma.  

Answer 3

they are all very very dead. u can tell if someones dead beleive me

Answer 4

Yes a very great many dead people are revived each year in time to vote in the elections.

Answer 5

You bring up an interesting point. We make sure the deceased aren't alive nowadays, but it was a problem before. It wasn't common, but it did happen. When people went into a state of a coma, doctors thought some were dead. The heart rate slows to the point, in some cases, were it is hardly noticeable... that's why we have very sensitive features on heart rate monitors. But anyway, there was no dissection, there was no preservation... they literally just plopped them in the ground in less than a day.

Archaeologists first got the idea of people being buried alive when they found old burial sites and when they opened the coffin, there was scratch marks on it, and there was clear evidence of someone inside trying to open it. It was very rare, but the did find some.

We make sure people are dead and have no chance of living when we burry them now. We drain the blood and replace it with a preservative. No blood equals no chance of life. Then the eyeballs are taken out and replaced with an artificial substance.

Ancient cultures seemed to take care of this problem better than 19th century western medicine! They often removed the organs such as the brain, heart, liver, and lungs. You can't survive without those. In western medicine, they almost never removed organs before burial unless there was some reason to.

Inside a coffin there is only enough oxygen for a person to breath for maybe 5 hours. After 5 hours they're pretty much gone.

By the early 20th century the problem was fixed by better equipment and more dissections before burial.

In Einstein's case, there's no way he's still around... his brain was removed, and the rest of his body was cremated. But I'm sure if he was around today he would love to talk to Stephan Hawking... I'm not sure if the two would get along though... Hawking has done ground breaking work in the research of black holes, and Einstein said the universe wouldn't allow them to exist. But that's besides the point.

Answer 6

It might be handy to be thought so.

Think of it, no telemarketers, no taxes etc.

That's why they make darn sure you've really checked out

before they let go.

Answer 7

Sometimes its hard to tell... take Elvis for example. No one but the doctor actually saw him on his 'death bed' so it is possible that some of the sightings are real. Einstein has been gone for awhile so even if he wasn't dead at first - he is now -.  I don't know what to believe in the dog head situation.