diciembre 26, 2010

The Walking Dead *


It’s a person’s life…experiences, memories. It’s everything.
Somewhere in all that organic wiring, all those ripples of light, is you…
the thing that makes you unique. And human.
Those are synapses, electric impulses in the brain that carry all the messages.
They determine everything a person says does or thinks from the moment of birth
to the moment of death.
It invades the brain like meningitis. The adrenal glands hemorrhage, the brain goes
into shutdown, then the major organs. Then death. Everything you ever were
or ever will be..Gone.
The resurrection times vary wildly. We had reports of it happening in as little as three minutes. The longest we heard of was eight hours. In the case
of this patient, it was two hours, one minute…Seven seconds.
Basically, it gets them up and moving. It’s nothing like before. Most of that brain
is dark. Dark, lifeless, dead.