Why Suspended Animation is Challenging Our Idea of Death
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5 min readMar 31, 2020
Shutting down the body may be the best way to survive trauma
On May 20, 1999, Anna Bagenholm was skiing off-piste in the mountains outside Narvik in Norway. Heading down a steep mountainside — on a route she had taken many times before — she lost control, fell and landed on her back on a frozen river. As she struggled to get…