I imagine it would be a total ballache for the person https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/03/they-said-i-dont-exist-but-i-am-here-one-womans-battle-to-prove-she-isnt-dead
Depending on your definition people actually have come back from the dead. Friend of mine for one. I’m lucky to live in that timeline.
Most of them are buried, so I’d say they die again.
Or burned into ash.
Unless they are Uma Turman with her masochistic palm-fist strike training.
We have examples of people being misidentified as dead, who rise either at the hospital, mortuary, or after.
It is speculated this is one of reasons ‘wakes’ were established, just to make sure the loved one was well and truly dead before committing them to earth.
Nobody would believe it, even if there was a live video feed of the death and the resurrection.
The definition of death is that it is not reversible, so it would mean that the person never was dead in the first place.
Thanks, I’ll keep that take in my pocket for later. “Your honor, you can’t possibly prove that in the future a superintelligence won’t be able to reconstruct enough of the victim’s brain to resurrect them, and hence they aren’t dead and I can’t have committed murder!”.
Something that nobody seems to have touched upon is the fact that many dead people are embalmed.
If you suddenly came alive again after being embalmed, you’d suddenly become dead again.
Also, post-mortem examinations are not uncommon if the cause of death was not clear. Again this might lead to instant re-death.
Finally, if the cause of death /was/ clear (such as trauma), then again, that may likely result in instant re-death.
While technically true, this really doesn’t change the question. Life is a complex series of chemical reactions; death is what happens when these reactions stop.
Let’s say you die of heart failure. Your heart stops pumping blood. Then the brain stops getting oxygen, due to the lack of blood. Then rigor mortis, and so on. If these aren’t all fixed, you would also re-die immediately (actually, without the brain function being fixed, you would never really be alive again).
The premise assumes that all of that has been addressed by them coming back to life. Adding a few external factors doesn’t change that. If it did, the simple fact that most people are buried and would suffocate would render the point moot. Same for decomposition.
Although cremation would be awfully hard to tackle…
If it happened frequently enough, the government would find a way to tax it.
So frequency equals taxes?
Let’s hope they never start counting all the times you jacked it.
I swear to God Dave if you found the necronomicon again
Depends. Once you’re dead and everything stops working, coming back means dealing with decomposition and a shitton of toxins. Can the system deal with it naturally? What’s the first stuff to go during decay and can the body do without them?
This is what I was thinking. You’d be going around in a partially decayed body, smelling like hell till all your cells could refresh.
Get killed because that’s a zombie
If they’ve been dead for a while then the body is going to be quite decayed so that unfortunate person would end up dying again immediately.
Unless you’re suggesting this thing that came to life is no longer human. So in that case decayed body/flesh, missing organs/bodyparts, etc. no longer prevent it from “life”. But I’d argue that isn’t a human coming back to life, more like a corpse transforming into something else.
Life insurance companies would be changing their terms and conditions.
They would need to have their brain destroyed or head severed to stop them from eating people and making more like themselves.
I imagine some religious folks would kill them as an affront to their religion or conversely imprisoned in secret government lab for testing.
