If we could develop the technology to bring the dead back to life, would you encourage it?

Question

To cite the best application that I can think of:

A young child is brutally murdered and the family is grieving without consolation.

If we had the ability to bring that child back to life with full health and nearly all memories expect the recent bad ones (i.e being murdered), would you encourage scientists to make this technology a reality?

Answer 1

YES, but can we start with the living ones.
MOST OF US ARE HALF DEAD ALREADY
:-(

Answer 2

No, I wouldn't. It would create complete chaos. First of all, if scientist can choose who they will revive from death, this makes the system subjective and thousands of families of dead people will be up in arms since some people can pay enough for the technology but others cannot. This is totally unjust and unfair because if one family gets their dead child back, why can't the thousands of others? If the technology would be open to the public, this would be even worse since it would surely be abused. I doubt the everyone in the world has the same morals, and there will be no way to stop the revival to life of, say, a suicide bomber? Hitler? maybe one day when the man who killed the little boy in your example dies, his family will want him to live again. Since there are millions of people with extremely conflicting motives, the technology would not be put to good use.
I'm not trying to be heartless and cruel, but I just don't think the technology would work. People are not immortal. Death is a part of life, and we must accept it as such and move on.

Answer 3

While the use of such technology to bring the child back would be a great event for the family, the technology is too dangerous. Death has always been the last resort, the task which will prevent a being from doing any more evil. While death has occured to many of the world's good, it has also been the saviour of so many. While it would be great to bring back the peace bringers, Martin Luther King, Ghandi, there is surely some corrupt person who will bring back the likes of Hitler or Stalin. The technology has brilliant potential, but for both good and evil.

Answer 4

To me, the question surrounding how the death happened will never ever justify the abovementioned action.

Yes, we have been made co-creators by God but He placed a limit as to what we can procreate and the means it can be achieved.

He has a reason for doing this that we may never be able to fully comprehend now but 10 or even hundred years from now, the explanation and full dawning will take place.

One example I can cite, which is an excerpt from the url below is this:

"Medical science has only recently discovered that blood-clotting in a newborn reaches its peak on the eighth day, then drops. The Bible consistently says that a baby must be circumcised on the eighth day."

Genesis 17:12 states: "For the generations to come every male among you who is EIGHT DAYS OLD must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring."

God did not give an explanation to the Israelites regarding his command but it was not until recently that it was discovered why.

I may have disgressed from the original question but this is something that I wanted to point out to further support my answer.

Answer 5

No. Because even if I don't believe in god, I think life has it's course. I mean, I know the entire family is devastated and that maybe the kid didn't deserve to die, but still, he is dead. Everything ends. Not always in the best way, but it has to end. It's ment to. If people don't learn how to get over things like death, and their fear to it, they just won't be able to resist to know about all the terrible things that happen in our planet, and that is not good. Because, we have to accept, that there are a lot of bad things going on out there! And someday, we'll have to face them. So I don't think that reviving people is a good thing. Plus, there would be WAY to much people in the world. Overpopulation. And if right now, we have trouble with factorys, Ozone,etc. Imagine if there would be 3,4,5,6 times the amount of people there is now, the damage would be even bigger.

Answer 6

All religious and eco-system reasons aside, bringing the dead back to life would be a bad idea. How do you police who gets brought back and who doesn't. Who pays for it? Who pays for, lets say health insurance on the previously dead person. What if you keep bringing 99 year old Grandma back to life, what quality of life would she have and would she be useful? Would she want to be brought back again and again. Everything in science and nature searches for equilibrium, life and death are a part of that.

Answer 7

Why not. We already have. He'd still die of old age eventually anyways, and the parents would have their son back. It's a win win.
We bring the dead back to life now, even murdered people. They seem to resume life, and find a way to live.

If you invented the fountain of youth though I could see where that would become a problem.

Answer 8

In theory it sounds like a great idea, doesn't it? Everyone wins. Until you stop to think about it. We would be over run with people, and we would soon run out of natural resources.
Most importantly, we would be playing God. And that is a dangerous thing to do, because we see only what is just ahead of us.
To sum it up, I guess it's a lot like what they said in Jurassic Park: "Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. "

Answer 9

If you've ever seen "Full Metal Alchemist", then you would know about how bad of idea bringing people back is...

Underlying motif of the story: It's never a good idea to bring dead people back...

...Why? Because crazy things happen when you do because you'd basically be mocking God/Nature...

Answer 10

If this was a possiblity then yes. However that technology is unavailable. Even if it was I would have to mention the dire implications of who gets to use it. How would you decide who is worthy and who is not? Preservation of life is a very noble thing to comtemplate however it is not up to us to decide whether one lives or dies. That decision is best left to God

Answer 11

NO - There is too many people on this planet. If we let everyone live forever, everyone will die from starvation. Same reason we should not clone humans (until needed). Unless we NEED to bring people back to life to save humanity from extinction, it should NOT be done.