I think there was a movie about this where the person who was mistaken for dead was almost operated on.
2006-12-10 20:07:04 · 8 answers · asked by Geri g 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
whay, what's the name of the condition?
2006-12-11 21:47:52 · update #1
Oh gawd...now people are quoting television shows for scientific data?
When "all your body functions cease" you are dead. The question was quite clear: the operational word being "all"...not 'near zero'. All.
But there was a movie, "The House of Usher", from the Edgar Allen Poe novel, where they incorrectly used the term "catalepsy" for this condition...and buried people alive.
2006-12-10 20:28:36 · answer #1 · answered by ridge50 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - although in the past people in comas used to be mistaken for dead and buried. It's where the phrase 'dead ringer' comes from - it became custom to bury people with a line in the coffin attached to a bell above ground, so that if they weren't dead they could ring the bell and be exhumed.
2006-12-11 10:05:14 · answer #2 · answered by squimberley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. But you can be frozen and revived, especially if you have a high Alcohol concentration.
Their is no disease that stops your bodily functions and doesn't kill you. f your heart stops for moe that 5 minutes, you are dead baby! Unless you have been frozen very well, in which case you have as long as 30 minutes if you are revived correctly.
2006-12-11 04:10:19 · answer #3 · answered by jaydelovell 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's not a disease rather it is a state called zero state where actually u r medically dead but some portion of ur mind continues working and sometimes as a result of it a dead person can be realived within a few minutes of acquiring this state
2006-12-11 04:21:10 · answer #4 · answered by meetmickeymoon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there is. A body can enter a state of which breathing and heart rate reduce to near zero. Ussually caused by a very traumatic circumstance or injury
2006-12-11 04:09:52 · answer #5 · answered by whay i lost my ?s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dunno.
There was amove called 'the serpent and the rainbow' , which featured zombie powder.
Zombie powder paralyses the victim, they can't move or speak. Their system slows down so drastically, they are mistaken for dead.
2006-12-11 04:15:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
muscular dystrophy where ur body parts slowly cease to function and u appear to be dead and unable to move but u arent dead..
i heard certain psycological prob do make a man lik that..but not sure..
hope u r satisfied..
2006-12-11 04:16:24 · answer #7 · answered by For peace 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes of course ..
but i don tell it to u
2006-12-11 04:29:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋