02-28-2005, 05:53 AM
BlackPhoenix Wrote:Sometimes doctors make Zombies out of people
The process involves the use of tetrodotoxin (pufferfish poison) to induce catalepsy (condition in which a person's vitals drop so low that they're mistaken for dead), then oxygen starvation (courtesy of the person's premature burial), then a mix of cane toad secretion and jimson weed. But it wouldn't work in Schiavo's case. Her brain is just too damaged, and after 17 years, her muscles have probably all atrophied beyond repair.