BioTech - Patients to be frozen into state of suspended animation for surgery

I never though I would ever read something like this in my lifetime. This has to be one of the most interesting articles I have come upon recently.

Researchers have basically discovered a way to freeze your body into suspended animation (a word found only in comic books), not indefinitely, but long enough to give us a couple of extra hours under the knife which could mean the difference between life and death. The doctors put your body on a heart/lung bypass meaning the blood in your body does not go through your heart and lungs but rather through a machine, and instead a cold saline solution is passed through your body, rapidly cooling your body temperature.

The average human body temperature is 37 degrees C. During this procedure, the human body hits temperatures as low as 10 degrees C. By rapidly cooling the cells, they remain intact and do not get damaged, even the brain cells. During the surgery, you have no heart beat, pulse, or brain waves. You are basically dead frozen. 

After the surgery, the body is slowly re-heated and then resuscitated. You then come back to life.

Somebody tell me this is not interesting.

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