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The world is much like a quilt, colorful patches of different textures, sizes, shapes s tit ched together to make a beautiful covering that is a feast for the eyes. It’s the variety of color, texture shape and size that gives the quilts it’s uniqueness. When nature paints a vista, it also has many textures, colors, shapes, sizes. The creator never meant the world or it’s inhabitants to all be alike. Let’s celebrate our world’s uniqueness of being as well as our uniqueness of spirit and not expect everyone to be like us. It’s our differences that make us interesting, unique, and worth wanting to learn more about.
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Dead Man Walking & Voting?
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May 24, 2012 8:49 am
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According to McClathy newspapers, N.C. election officials, and the family of the impersonated deceased husband and father, conservative activist James O’Keefe of Project Veritas is airing a fraudulent ‘undercover sting video' on You Tube in an effort to gain support for the restrictive voting requirements being passed over the nation by majority GOP legislatures. N.C. officials are calling this video incorrect, and the family of the impersonated deceased person is calling it infuriating. The video cites the cases of three Wake County voters. In an effort to show that it's easy to commit voter fraud here, Veritas impersonated dead people. Before it’s recent exposure, it seems to have caused quite a stir. Now that it has been discovered, will anyone be punished? Doubtful!
I wonder what other dirty tricks we will see before November that will engulf the gullible? Be careful what you believe, even when you see and hear it.
“Michael Bolton is cited in the video, posted on YouTube, as an example of what the narrator calls "ballots being offered out in the name of the dead." Bolton had been a sports star at Broughton High School and was a community pillar in Raleigh, serving on the N.C. State University alumni association board, the NCSU Centennial Gateway Committee, and on the boards of the Raleigh Little Theatre and North Carolina Theatre. Two weeks after his death, on the day of the May 8 primary, a Veritas operator clad in a strange outfit built around green lederhosen, a multi-colored cap and a bleach job that makes his beard and hair mismatch to a comical degree, appeared at Bolton's polling place.
In the video, he identifies himself as Bolton and - according to the narrator - is offered Bolton's ballot. An unedited, three-and-a-half-hour version of the videotape on Veritas' own website, though, shows that editors snipped out a key piece of the video: a poll worker asking the 20-something impersonator if he is Michael G. Bolton Junior . The Veritas operative says yes. Michael G. Bolton Jr., who has the same address as his father, is very much alive. Michael G. Bolton, died recently of cancer April 23 at age 63.
Winifred Bolton, was the first member of the family to find out that something odd had happened at their polling place, Martin Middle School in Raleigh. She said that when she went to vote about 1 p.m. that day, she was startled when poll workers asked her to remind her son to come back and finish voting. They said a man claiming to be Michael Jr. had left before filling out a ballot, had been acting oddly and wasn't able to sign anything because he had injured his arm.
At first, Winifred Bolton was puzzled and frightened, she said. Later, someone pointed her to the video, and it finally became clear what had happened. She and all four of her children are unhappy about being part of the stunt while still grieving. The imposter's disguise and behavior were so odd, Bolton said, that surely it should have set off alarm bells. "I don't even know what to say, except that it makes you feel violated." The real Michael Bolton Jr. called it "infuriating." "I feel like it was in bad taste," the widow said. "They should have at least asked our permission, or I guess maybe just picked someone who had been dead a lot longer," offered Michael Jr.
But Veritas couldn't pick someone who had been dead a long time, there are safeguards in place already. There isn't a giant pool of dead registered voters whose name can be used. Every month, the state elections board gets a list from the Department of Health and Human Services of the people who have died. It then forwards those names electronically to county boards for their use in updating their rolls. Gary Bartlett, executive director of the N.C. State Board of Elections, said he knows of only one case in which someone has actually managed to vote in the name of a dead person - a man who had used his father's name.
Information taken from an article by Jay Price
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Is There Any Space For Intelligent Thought? #1
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May 23, 2012 9:05 am
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I'm seeing more and more bigotry and racism crawl of the cracks on this site as it's credibility fails to be questioned. Some things are so blatantly ignorant that it's shocking that anyone would go for it, but it seems they do, unfortunately. Much ado continues to be made about the president supporting equality for all citizens, even in equality in marriage. So called 'CHRISTIAN' ministers advocating concentration camps for all gays until they die out. Silence gives dangerous consent to such hate and bigotry. Since scientific researchers have discovered that homosexuality extends also to the animal kingdom, I wonder what say ye about God creating homosexual animals? Will these so called Christians also condemn God, or perhaps possibly it is not God, but learned behavior in the animal kingdom. Ya think?
"Homosexual behavior* in animals has always been observed by both biologists and lay people, but it was not until the 1990s that science began to take it seriously. Since Bruce Bagemihl’s seminal 1999 book “Biological Exuberance: animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity,” the behavior has been observed in 1,500 species and is well understood in 500.
Until recently, the behavior and its inferences was dismissed due to observer bias, or assumed to be a prelude to ‘real’ heterosexual behavior. According to Bagemihl: “the animal kingdom [does] it with much greater sexual diversity – including homosexual, bisexual and non-reproductive sex – than the scientific community and society at large have previously been willing to accept.”
Paul Vasey, animal behavior professor at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, says:
“They’re engaging in the behavior because it’s gratifying sexually or it’s sexually pleasurable. They just like it. It doesn’t have any sort of adaptive payoff.”
Said Petter Bøckman, academic adviser for the Against Nature? exhibit held at Oslo’s Natural History Museum in 2007:
Many researchers have described homosexuality as something altogether different from sex. They must realise that animals can have sex with who they will, when they will and without consideration to a researcher’s ethical principles.
That exhibit then traveled to five other European cities. One of its aims was to “help to de-mystify homosexuality among people … we hope to reject the all too well known argument that homosexual behaviour is a crime against nature.”
Sex, courtship, affection, pair bonding, and parenting among same sex animals have all been observed. Exclusive homosexual orientation appears to be rare, although it is found in domesticated sheep, with about one in ten of rams (males) refusing to mate with ewes (females). A 2009 review of existing research showed that same-sex behavior is a nearly universal phenomenon in the animal kingdom, common across species.
The idea of ‘gay’ animals has been widely picked up in media reports. The most famous case being of Roy and Silo, a male pair of chinstrap penguins in the Central Park Zoo in New York City who in 2004 successfully hatched and fostered a female chick named Tango from a fertile egg they had been given to incubate.
Silo later took up with a female penguin, Scrappy, and both are still thriving at 25 years old at the zoo. A 2010 study by France’s Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology found that homosexual pairings in penguins is widespread, but they don’t usually last more than a few years.
Their story became the basis of the illustrated children’s book “And Tango Makes Three” (see cover), which has gone on to be one of the most challenged books in American libraries. Many other stories of ‘gay’ penguins have since appeared in the media and become the source of heated debate, with the religious right citing Silo’s move to Scrappy as Exhibit A on their side of the ‘nature/lifestyle’ argument. The ‘nature/potential crime’ implications are decidedly political. - 11 ‘Gay’ animals (Slideshow)by Paul Canning, May 17, 2012
Homosexuality in animals was cited in the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down the sodomy laws of 14 states.
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Innocent Even After Proven Guilty? What Say Ye?
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May 21, 2012 7:38 am
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How about 'guilty even after proven innocent'? We all remember The Casey Anthony case, accused murderer, made a a national, sought after celebrity, garnering wealth and marriage proposals. It's amazing what we seem to admire in others. There are those who are often jailed and even put to death in miscalculations of justice because society, law enforcement and victims, simply want somebody to pay. Would you be one of those persons? Make someone pay, as long as it's someone I don't like? What say ye?
Currently notable in the criminal justice arena is the unveiling of a new national registry on exonerations compiled at two universities, the University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. This registry is hailed asthe most complete list of exonerations ever compiled. The data reveals more than 2,000 people who were falsely convicted of serious crimes have been exonerated in the United States in the past 23 years.
Also recently the federal appeals courts ruled citizens have the right to tape police making arrests. Municipalities and police unions tried to make it illegal to tape police making an arrest. Hummmn, I wonder why? In light of the misbehavior by law enforcement in the Rodney King incident, this did not seem reasonable.
Previously, there was no official record-keeping system for exonerations or miscalculations of justice of convicted criminals in the country, so academics set one up in the form of the new national registry. History of behavior is a very valuable tool in criminal justice.
"The database compiled and analyzed by the researchers contains information on 873 exonerations for which they have the most detailed evidence. The researchers are aware of nearly 1,200 other exonerations, for which they have less data.
They found that those 873 exonerated defendants spent a combined total of more than 10,000 years in prison, an average of more than 11 years each. [/COLOR]Nine out of 10 of them are men and half are African-American.
Nearly half of the 873 exonerations were homicide cases, including 101 death sentences. Over one-third of the cases were sexual assaults. DNA evidence led to exoneration in nearly one-third of the 416 homicides and in nearly two-thirds of the 305 sexual assaults.
Researchers estimate the total number of felony convictions in the United States is nearly a million a year. The overall registry/list begins at the start of 1989. It gives an unprecedented view of the scope of the problem of wrongful convictions in the United States and the figure of more than 2,000 exonerations "is a good start," said Rob Warden, executive director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions.
"We know there are many more that we haven't found," added University of Michigan law professor Samuel Gross, the editor of the newly opened National Registry of Exonerations.
Counties such as San Bernardino in California and Bexar County in Texas are heavily populated, yet seemingly have no exonerations, a circumstance that the academics say cannot possibly be correct.
The registry excludes at least 1,170 additional defendants. Their convictions were thrown out starting in 1995 amid the periodic exposures of 13 major police scandals around the country. In all the cases, police officers fabricated crimes, usually by planting drugs or guns on innocent defendants.
Regarding the 1,170 additional defendants who were left out of the registry, "we have only sketchy information about most of these cases," the report said. "Some of these group exonerations are well known; most are comparatively obscure. We began to notice them by accident, as a byproduct of searches for individual cases."
In half of the 873 exonerations studied in detail, the most common factor leading to false convictions was perjured testimony or false accusations. Forty-three percent of the cases involved mistaken eyewitness identification, and 24 percent of the cases involved false or misleading forensic evidence.
In two out of three homicides, perjury or false accusation was the most common factor leading to false conviction. In four out of five sexual assaults, mistaken eyewitness identification was the leading cause of false conviction.
Seven percent of the exonerations were drug, white-collar and other nonviolent crimes, 5 percent were robberies and 5 percent were other types of violent crimes.
"It used to be that almost all the exonerations we knew about were murder and cases. We're finally beginning to see beyond that. This is a sea change," said Gross.
Exonerations often take place with no public fanfare and the 106-page report that coincides with the opening of the registry explains why. On TV, an exoneration looks like a singular victory for a criminal defense attorney, "but there's usually someone to blame for the underlying tragedy, often more than one person, and the common culprits include defense lawyers as well as police officers, prosecutors and judges. In many cases, everybody involved has egg on their face," according to the report.-Criminal Exonerations: 2,000 Convicted Then Exonerated In U.S. Over Last 23 Years, Says Study,AP | By PETE YOST,05/21/2012
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Did You Know ?
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May 20, 2012 8:04 pm
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EDITORIAL
The Campaign Against Women,Published: May 19, 2012
Republicans are not backing off their assault on women’s equality and well-being. New laws in some states could mean a death sentence for a pregnant woman who suffers a life-threatening condition. But the attack goes well beyond abortion, into birth control, access to health care, equal pay and domestic violence.
Republicans seem immune to criticism. In an angry speech last month, John Boehner, the House speaker, said claims that his party was damaging the welfare of women were “entirely created” by Democrats. Earlier, the Republican National Committee chairman, Reince Priebus, sneered that any suggestion of a G.O.P. “war on women” was as big a fiction as a “war on caterpillars.”
But just last Wednesday, Mr. Boehner refuted his own argument by ramming through the House a bill that seriously weakens the Violence Against Women Act. That followed the Republican push in Virginia and elsewhere to require medically unnecessary and physically invasive sonograms before an abortion, and Senate Republicans’ persistent blocking of a measure to better address the entrenched problem of sex-based wage discrimination.
On Capitol Hill and in state legislatures, Republicans are attacking women’s rights in four broad areas.
ABORTION On Thursday, a House subcommittee denied the District of Columbia’s Democratic delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, a chance to testify at a hearing called to promote a proposed federal ban on nearly all abortions in the District 20 weeks after fertilization. The bill flouts the Roe v. Wade standard of fetal viability. (This is a separate law that applies to no other citizens).
Seven states have enacted similar measures. In Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer signed a law that bans most abortions two weeks earlier. Each measure will create real hardships for women who will have to decide whether to terminate a pregnancy before learning of major fetal abnormalities or risks to their own health.
These laws go a cruel step further than the familiar Republican attacks on Roe v. Wade. They omit reasonable exceptions for a woman’s health or cases of , incest or grievous fetal impairment. These laws would require a woman seeking an abortion to be near death, a standard that could easily delay medical treatment until it is too late.
All contain intimidating criminal penalties, fines and reporting requirements designed to scare doctors away. Last year, the House passed a measure that would have allowed hospitals receiving federal money to refuse to perform an emergency abortion even when a woman’s life was at stake. The Senate has not taken up that bill, fortunately
ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE Governor Brewer also recently signed a bill eliminating public funding for Planned Parenthood. Arizona law already barred spending public money on abortions, which are in any case a small part of the services that Planned Parenthood provides. The new bill denies the organization public money for nonabortion services, like cancer screening and family planning, often the only services of that kind available to poor women.
Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature tried a similar thing in 2011, and were sued in federal court by a group of clinics. The state argues that it is trying to deny money to organizations that “promote” abortions. That is nonsense. Texas already did not give taxpayer money for abortions, and the clinics that sued do not perform abortions.
EQUAL PAY Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, the epicenter of all kinds of punitive and regressive legislation, signed the repeal of a 2009 law that allowed women and others to bring lawsuits in state courts against pay discrimination, instead of requiring them to be heard as slower and more costly federal cases. It also stiffened penalties for employers found guilty of discrimination.
He defended that bad decision by saying he did not want those suits to “clog up the legal system.” He turned that power over to his government, which has a record of hostility toward workers’ rights.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Last month, the Senate approved a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, designed to protect victims of domestic and sexual abuse and bring their abusers to justice. The disappointing House bill omits new protections for gay, Indian, student and immigrant abuse victims that are contained in the bipartisan Senate bill.
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Are Older People More Grumpy, Angry, Pessimistic Than Younger People? What Say Ye??
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May 19, 2012 9:22 am
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LET's TALK and share rather than attack and be grumpy please.
I've noticed over the years, older persons coming across as angry, combative, pessimistic people. Perhaps I've noticed this more than others might, having worked in an industry where I was paid to assist people in solving their problems, therefore probably saw more people who had problems, however even observing people in everyday situations, at the grocery store , in line at theme parks over the years, there seem to be more frowns and grumpiness than smiles on the elderly. Even in real estate matters, dealing with elderly clients was always more problematic than dealing with younger and middle age clients. Going the extra mile usually did not garner a thank you, but suspicion, almost as if it was their entitlement. I sometimes wonder if this may not contribute some to the increasing nursing home dump vs. caring for the elder at home?This has been my observations in my youth as well as in my senior years, which prompted me many years ago to pray that I never become a grumpy disagreeable old person.
I hear offspring in their 40's & 50's complain that they really don't want to visit because elder parents either start arguments because they wish them to spend every minute with them, or end up trying to make them feel guilty for not visiting more often.
I certainly can understand the ravages of age, arthritis, pain and feeling discarded does not give one reason to smile, but are there reasons and ways to still be personable and pleasant? What say ye?
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How Are Jobs Created? What Say Ye?
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May 18, 2012 6:58 pm
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Multi-millionaire venture capitalist Nick Hanauer was on the Ed Show on Friday evening. His message, in response to the GOP claims that giving more and more tax breaks to the rich create jobs, was that the rich do not create jobs, consumers purchasing what the rich produce create jobs. He went on to say cutting spending in a recession decreases what trickles down to consumers, who then have less to spend on groceries and other consumables. Job creaters, he explains, hire people based on demand for their products. If there is less demand, there is less need to hire more people to produce more products. Simple enough explanation for anyone to understand, yet far too complicated for the GOP it seems, or is it really?? Finance has always taught that money needs to be circulated in the economy for commerce to occur. Of course we all know that commerce is the buying and selling of goods, especially on a large scale, as between vendor and customers, cities or nations. The Ed Show host recalled that Henry Ford stated he needed to pay his workers well, so they would be able to buy his cars.
Hanauer argued that the rich, people like him in other words, aren't responsible for the bulk of America’s job creation and therefore shouldn’t receive tax breaks to help them create jobs. Instead, he noted that middle-class consumers are more likely to create jobs by spending and spurring businesses to hire. Brandishing a chart comparing millionaires’ effective tax rates to the unemployment rate over time, Hanauer noted that a drop in the tax rates of the super rich hasn't meant a drop in the unemployment rate (h/t Business Insider). "If it were true that lower tax rates and more wealth for the wealthy would lead to more job creation, then today we would be drowning in jobs," he said. "And yet unemployment and under-employment is at record highs." And if you all recall, the rich have been getting massive tax breaks for the last 11 years, starting at the beginning of the Bush Administration. About the same time it took for the recession to gain full steam. Since it took a full 7 years for the economy to tank under Bush, I wonder why many people aren’t willing to give this president half that time to recover, considering the economy is on the upswing. I have my own ideas why. What’s yours?
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Cruising, What Say Ye?
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May 18, 2012 8:53 am
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Elderly couple forced to leave Seabourn ship after missed drill, TRAVEL WEEKLY, The national Newspaper of The Travel Industry, By Donna Tunney, 5/17/12
Seabourn is standing by its decision to force an elderly couple to disembark the Seabourn Sojourn on May 12, after the wife missed the ship’s mandatory passenger safety drill before departure from Lisbon.
The California couple had booked a 20-day, three-leg cruise from Rome to Hamburg, and had participated in the drill when the ship left Rome on May 4. At the start of the second leg from Lisbon, another drill was announced and held, per industry policy.
But the 84-year-old woman wasn’t feeling well, and since she had participated in the drill before leaving Rome, she decided to skip it, said her agent, Steven Shulem, president of Strictly Vacations in Santa Barbara. Her 90-year-old husband attended both drills.
Within an hour of the Lisbon drill, the two found themselves standing with their luggage on the pier as the Sojourn sailed off.
“I think Seabourn could have handled this differently,” Shulem said. According to his client’s account, when the elderly lady didn’t show at the drill, a crew member was sent to her room. She told that person she wasn’t well. “Fifteen minutes later, an officer was at their door, telling her the couple needed to disembark,” Shulem said. “The staff packed them up and put them off.”
Passenger safety drills have taken on new urgency — and have mandated strict compliance rules — since the Costa Concordia shipwreck on Jan. 13, which claimed the lives of 32 people off the Tuscan coast.
A Seabourn spokesman said: “Mandatory attendance at the emergency drill conducted prior to every voyage is a strict company policy to ensure the safety of everyone on board. No exceptions are permitted.” He added: “A guest who is too ill to attend may attend a make-up drill when their health permits.” Seabourn did not elaborate on why that option wasn’t offered in this case.
Shulem said that the couple, who are long-time clients, cruise once a year. They were assisted in Lisbon by Strictly Vacations’ 24-hour emergency services vendor, since Shulem was aboard the Oceania Riviera’s christening cruise when the incident occurred. “They said they’ll never cruise Seabourn again,” he said.
Holland America Line, a sister brand to Seabourn, in February debarked a passenger for refusing to participate in a drill. Both lines are Carnival Corp. brands, as is Costa Cruises, owner of the Concordia.
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The Attachment Parenting Controversy. What's Your Take?
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May 13, 2012 12:37 pm
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Time Magazine asks the question, How old is too old for breast feeding? Katie Hamilton says mothers should decide how long they want to breast-feed their children, not society.
One is an arbitrary number, she says, in response to a controversial Time magazine cover this week depicting a woman breast-feeding her 3-year-old son.
"There has been this bond, this connection and to cut it off right at 1, there's no need for it," said Hamilton, a mother of two in Redondo Beach, Calif. She breast-feeds her 21-month-old daughter and explains why in an AP video.
Hamilton says she loves that the magazine cover has put breast-feeding and attachment parenting in the news. The attachment philosophy encourages mothers to respond to their babies' every cry and form close bonds with near-constant physical contact through "co-sleeping" (letting them sleep in the bed with parents rather than in cribs) and "baby-wearing" (carrying them on slings instead of pushing them in strollers).
"It's about mothers doing the best they can to meet the needs of their baby and follow their natural instincts in the biological norm that keeps their baby healthy and happy," she tells AP. (My daughter held on to her bottle until she was 4 years old, but only used it at home. When questioned why she did not take it to nursery school, she responded that they would laugh at her). So, she, at age 4, was well aware that sucking a bottle was considered abnormal by her peers.
While the term 'attachment parenting' may be new, the behavior of nursing children until they are 3,4, even 5 years is not. I have seen it over many in rural areas. In my youth, being from the city, I always attributed it to the backwoods, now here it is mainstream. Over the years of practicing Social Work, I've even seen parents investigated for bathing with their 2,3, & 4 year old opposite sex children. It made sense to me that a mother, to save time and multi-task, could bathe the children at the same time she bathed and accomplish play time all in one setting. Times change, environments change, access to resources change, and societies perspectives change for survival based on all these related changes. It's called progress and adaptation. What's Your Take?
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Happy Endings!
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May 13, 2012 6:35 am
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Lazarus syndrome or autoresuscitation after failed cardiopulmonary resuscitation[1] is the spontaneous return of circulation after failed attempts at resuscitation.[2] Its occurrence has been noted in medical literature at least 25 times since 1982.[3] Also called Lazarus phenomenon, it takes its name from Lazarus who, in the New Testament account, was raised from the dead by Jesus.[4]
We all probably recall last month’s Argentine miracle baby found alive after 12 hours in the morgue by parents who insisted on holding their ‘reportedly’ still born child before leaving the hospital. Now another news story of a 'Dead' man waking up at his funeral, a funeral that becomes a celebration. While these stories happened in foreign countries, there are many to go around in the U.S.
Cases: One example is a 61-year-old woman from Delaware, USA, who was given "multiple medicines and synchronized shocks", but never regained a pulse. She was declared dead but was discovered in the morgue to be alive and breathing. She sued the medical center where it happened for damages due to physical and neurological problems stemming from the event.[3] (one would think she would be so happy to be alive that a lawsuit would not even be a thought).
Another case is a 66-year-old man suffering from a suspected abdominal aneurysm. During treatment for this condition, the patient suffered cardiac arrest and received chest compressions and defibrillation shocks for 17 minutes. Vital signs did not return; the patient was declared dead and resuscitation efforts ended. Ten minutes later, the surgeon felt a pulse. The aneurysm was successfully treated and the patient fully recovered with no lasting physical or neurological problems.[2]
An 18-year-old woman in Missouri, USA, attempted suicide by overdosing on sleeping medication. Resuscitation was attempted, but failed, and she was declared dead. Seven minutes later, her heart started beating and she started breathing on her own again, though she was comatose. The woman regained consciousness 5 days later and was oblivious to what had happened.
Throughout history, similar occurrences have happened, which is why, over the years, there have been many weird practices and rituals to prevent these type occurrences, e.g. tying a string to the corpse and an outside bell in the event it wakes up. The bell will ring with movement. Another ritual that persists in many countries around the world today, a wake, where the body is bathed and laid out for 24 hours (without embalmbing).
As a former college Instructor, one of the most interesting courses I have taught is Death and Dying, which seemed to mesmerize even the worst student, who did well in the class because they were so fascinated with the worlds rituals around death. Miscalculating death seems to still be with us. Given the horrendous hours that interns and residents work, it is not surprising that such errors are made. When I worked at a major metropolitan teaching hospital in the Northeast, it was the residents who were awakened at night, after 12 hour days, to pronounce death, and they were not all too pleased to be awakened after being asleep for only a couple of hours. I’ve heard one scream to an attendant, “don’t you know when a person is dead? Clock it and I’ll sign it later. He isn't going anywhere". Given how teaching hospitals operate, it is a miracle that more miscalculations are not made.
Egyptian hospital officials had declared him dead after heart attack, updated 5/12/2012
LUXOR, Egypt — The funeral of a 28 year-old waiter in southern Egypt turned into a celebration when he woke up after being declared dead.
Hospital officials had pronounced dead Hamdi Hafez al-Nubi, who came from the village of Naga al-Simman in the southern province of Luxor, after he suffered a heart attack while working.
His family says grieving relatives took him home and, according to Islamic tradition, washed his body and prepared him for burial Friday evening.
A doctor sent to sign the death certificate found it strange that his body was warm. At closer observation she discovered he was still alive. His mother fainted upon hearing the good news.
With the doctor's assistance, both al-Nubi and his mother were awakened and soon were celebrating with guests.
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