What is the name of the machine that shocks people back to life

What is the name of the machine that shocks people back to life?

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A heart defibulator will help restore the natural rhythm of the heart when a person is experiencing dangerous arrhythmia or cardiac arrest. The heart has a natural defibulator built in that acts much the way a pacemaker does. ChaCha again!

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S’poreans are we cows or are we Humans to our Govt.?

Q: Scuffle for organs sparks donor debate in SingaporeBy Koh Gui Qing ADVERTISEMENT SINGAPORE, Feb 28 (Reuters) – As members of Sim Tee Hua’s family sat at his bedside to pray for his recovery, they were horrified to learn that the hospital staff were about to turn off his life-support machine and use his organs for transplants. The scenes that followed have shocked and upset not just Sim’s family but many other Singaporeans, sparking a debate over the country’s organ donor policy, which assumes that all citizens are willing donors, unless they have registered with the government that they wish to opt out. Doctors at Singapore General Hospital had declared Sim brain-dead and said they could not delay switching off life support any longer because of the risk of damage to Sim’s organs. Sim’s family had no objection to his organs being used for transplants but wanted doctors to wait one more day before turning off the life support machine. But as Sim’s 68-year-old mother and about 20 other relatives knelt weeping before the doctors, begging them to wait, nine police officers entered the ward and restrained the distraught family while Sim’s body was quickly whisked away. “The hospital staff were running as they wheeled him out of the back door of the room. They were behaving like robbers,” said Sim Chew Hiah, one of Sim’s elder sisters. The Sim family’s experience has prompted a wave of letters to the local media, with some people saying they would opt out in protest, and added fire to a debate about organ trading. Lee Wei Ling — a prominent doctor who is the daughter of Lee Kuan Yew, the first prime minister of modern Singapore — last month urged the government to legalise organ trading, or the buying or selling of human organs for cash. “Organ trading is frowned upon and usually not allowed in countries where political correctness reigns,” said Lee in a letter to the Straits Times. “If monetary incentive makes a potential living donor more willing to save another life, what is wrong in allowing that ?” Her views have some support from the public. “If I can sell my organs, give my children a better life, and save someone else’s life too, why not? Not everyone drives a Mercedes,” said Khalid, 32, who gave only his first name. Currently, anyone caught buying or selling human organs in Singapore may be jailed up to a year or fined up to US$6,500. POOR DONORS Those who oppose the trading of human organs say it promotes greater social injustice. “To trade it and sell it for a 100 pounds, 200 pounds, or to the highest bidder, that is to prostitute your organ,” said Dr Choi Kin, president of the Hong Kong Medical Association. Such donors are likely to be the poor and uneducated people from countries such as Brazil and India, who can sell a kidney for as little as $1,000, the World Health Organisation said. And they are usually exploited by organ traffickers, who can charge wealthy clients up to $100,000 to $200,000 for a new organ, according to the WHO. The chronic shortage of organs available for transplant is a global problem. In the U.S. alone, more than 6,200 patients die each year while waiting for an organ, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, a U.S.-based non-profit medical group. The shortage has forced doctors and governments to look for alternatives, such as the use of pigs’ kidneys, hearts and lungs, or the purchase of human organs. Many patients have also travelled abroad for transplants, notably to China, which has been accused by rights groups of harvesting organs from executed prisoners. Since 1995, more than 270 Singaporeans have gone abroad, mostly to China, for organ transplants, the Health Ministry said. DEFINITION OF DEATH To ease the organ shortage, Singapore amended its Human Organ Transplant Act in 2004 to expand the pool of organ donors and the type of organs that could be donated. Hospitals can remove the kidneys, liver, heart and corneas of all non-Muslim Singapore citizens or permanent residents when they die, unless they have objected. Muslims can choose to donate their organs, as in Iran and Malaysia, although many believe that the dead should be buried with all their organs intact. Doctors say a system which assumes all citizens are organ donors is necessary because even though many people are in favour of donating their organs, few actually come forward. While many European countries, including Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, and Spain, have laws similar to Singapore’s Transplant Act, it can still be a sensitive issue. When Brazil passed a similar law in 1998, it triggered a public outcry. The Federal Attorney later conceded that families could prevent the removal of organs for transplant. Critics say laws which assume all citizens are organ donors are inadequate because the definition of death is debatable. Others are concerned that life-support may be turned off prematurely or that people may be unaware of the opt-out option. “It should be up to the citizens to decide. These are their bodies, their organs, and therefore their decisions,” said Dr Choi Kin. “If an accident should occur, it would be too late for them to opt out, even if they do not agree to donate.” In Singapore, some doctors had urged amending the Transplant Act, giving families the right to block such donations. After the outcry over the Sim family’s forced donation, the hospital and health ministry said in a statement that they would “continue to find practical solutions to minimise the emotional distress of families and staff in such situations.” Sim’s kidneys went to patients who had waited six to eight years for donor organs, the ministry said. His parents were offered five years of subsidised hospital fees — and his family received a thank-you letter from the ministry for their “generous organ donation.”

A: As a Singaporean, I agree with Tan D. The newspaper probably over-dramatised the scene. It is a simple matter of a family which probably doesn’t want to face the fact that their relative is already certified brain-dead. This is natural. There is no easy answer but this is not a “forced donation” because the procedures are standard & known to most members of the public… While we may sympathise with any bereaved grieving family, I don’t think it’s fair to paint the authorities as heartless in this case. After all, the kidneys went to patients who waited many years for donor organs which can be a hard match as not everyone’s organ will do, and it is true that there is a risk of damage to the organs if they stay on in the body of the brain-dead person, which means that the organs might later be unsuitable for transplant to another person. The family will probably come to terms with the whole issue, if other individuals do not make an issue out of it & incite them to raise the matter beyond proportion.The family is probably not so much upset by this issue but simply & naturally grieving over the demise of a family member.As for the separate issue of whether to allow selling of organs, there are pros and cons, but one point to note is that it may encourage a society where organs go to those who are rich or those who can even auction or bid for organs (imagine eBay with organs?), and this could be bad for society if it is pervasive, because then the poor would never ever be able to get any organ which would always go to the next higher bidder. That’s why our government does not promote organ-selling or organ-trading.

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Q: Hi. i dont know whats wrong with me if there is some thing wrong!i just cant enjoy life and im tired pretending. i feel like a machine, i get up in the morning, i have my coffe and burn my cigs. go to work, get my job done to go back home or even get involved with my busy social life, may be go for a coffe with friends and go out party at week ends.. sound like my life is normal, well, it just looks normal, it doesnt feel normal at all. i feel like someone else. like those feelings and thoughts arent mine, do you know when you watch a movie and understand the feelings in the movie, its the same i do understand those feeling and those thoughts but they arent mine.i do stuff that i dont understand how did i do it or why, i dont hear voices, they are my own thoughts but not coming from my mind. i dont control them i just have to listen to them cause i cant ignore them, its like a freaking radio in my head.. i cant stop them, i even some times go into conversations with those thoughts, we agree and disagree like im talking to some one else accept they inside my head..i know im the same person who have that sound and its coming out of my mind “i hope” it doesnt make me feel like someone else unless i have done something then was shocked at what drove me to behave this way or act this way then i found out that the thoughts agree with what i did but i dont..like few weeks ago, i found my self taking someone`s phone and texting him, the thoughts have said he is my friend and i texted him as if we were friends knowing he isnt my friend and i only saw him once in my whole life.. the thoughts said i have to meet him and when i did i listened to my own thoughts telling me what the fuc* you doing, this isnt normal, normal people dont just do stuff like that, this isnt me, i have my own friends and i dont make friendships with strangers so i nleft just before this person show up!! i catch my self doing stuff that i wouldnt normally do, just yesterday i went to have a bath, and i found my self crying my eyes out and holding my body as if im reassuring my self that im fine, i was holding my own body as if im hugging my self !!.last week, i felt like im so dirty “as in not clean” i felt like from the inside out is so much dust and how much i tried i wouldnt be able to feel clean,i dont wanna kill my self, i have had tried before but i know for a fact that being lifeless-like a walking dead is better than to die, i dont wanna face that nothingness, there is nothing after we die, just silence forever, and this is the only reason keeping me a live, i dont wanna be alive tho, i wish if i had never been here, life isnt worth living, there is no hope. the amount of sadness i feel makes me wanna hurt my self, i some times feel as if i cut or burn my self the pain i will feel will numb my soul or take my mind off my own thoughts even if it was for just a little bit.i know what will other people will say to me, try harder to be happy. i dont have any reasons not to be happy. i live in a big house in a beautiful country, im blessed with good looks, i have friends, i have a well paid job… there is nothing to make me sad, yet im broken, shattered and so tired.i forgot how to be me.. im just a machine..my emotions are eaither real unexplainble happy or real unexplainble sad.i go out, talk, laugh and engage my self with people while i feel lonely and im only doing this because im trying hard to be normal person and normal person doesnt set alone for hours, normal people have a social life and this is why ive got one, im not enjoying it tho,its like im living someone elses life, or someone elses using my body and i cant find my self or my whole being! i just feel weird. i dont know who i am, but i know my name.. this have been going on for long time im really tired

A: I think normal people do do these things we just dont talk about them. You sound so alienated confused and lost. It makes it more poignant that you have what others think of as good luck.I dont know how you start to find yourself but it does seem like a pleasant journey to embark upon to find your truth rather than living a lie.YOu sound like you are trying to escape yourself rather than find yourself I can understand that part about feeling not clean I wonder what would help you find out how to feel clean. Something that helped me a lot was doing some voluntary work working with people who were desperate it is a way to touch ‘real’ but you do sound like you could do with someone who will listen to you and what is going on for you. Start on a journey of healing yourself no matter what it takes no matter if you have to lose all the life you have at present. Just start getting yourself weller. Maybe first stop is your GP and be real with them.

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Q: A Mom is driving her little girl to a friend’s house for a play date. “Mommy,” the little girl asks, “how old are you?”“Honey, you are not supposed to ask a lady her age,” the mother warns. “It is not polite.”“Ok,” the little girl says. “How much do you weigh?”“Now really,” the mother says, “these are personal questions, and really none of your business.”Undaunted, the little girl asks, “Why did you and daddy get a divorce?”“That is enough questions, honestly!” The exasperated mother walks away as the two friends begin to play.“My Mom wouldn’t tell me anything,” the little girl says to her friend.“Well,” said the friend, “all you need to do is look at her drivers license. It is like a report card—it has everything on it.” Later that night, the little girl says to her mother, “I know how old you are. You are 32.”The mother is surprised and asks, “How did you find that out?”“I also know that you weigh 140 pounds.” The mother is past surprise and shocked now.“How in heaven’s name did you find that out?”“And,” the little girl says triumphantly, “I know why you and daddy got a divorce.”“Oh really?” the mother asks. “And why’s that?”“Because you got an F in sex.”__________________________________-“If there are any idiots in the room, will they please stand up,” said the sarcastic teacher. After a long silence, one freshman rose to his feet. “Now then mister, why do you consider yourself an idiot?!” inquired the teacher with a sneer. “Well actually I don’t,” said the student, “but I hate to see you standing up there all by yourself.”____________________________________________On the other hand….. you have different fingers.__________________________________________1. Only in America… can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.2. Only in America… are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.3. Only in America… do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.4. Only in America… do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet coke.5. Only in America… do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.6. Only in America… do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.7. Only in America… do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won’t miss a call from someone we didn’t want to talk to in the first place.8. Only in America… do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.9. Only in America… do we use the word ‘politics’ to describe the process so well: ‘Poli’ in Latin meaning ‘many’ and ‘tics’ meaning ‘bloodsucking creatures’.10. Only in America… do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille(oh for thoes of you who doesnt know what braille is , its the little bumps used so blind people can read)__________________________________________________When life gives you lemons, make orange juice and leave the world wondering how the hell you did it. _________________________________________________One fine day in the middle of the night two dead men got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other got out their swords and shot each other. A deaf policeman heard the noise and came to arrest the two young boys. If you don’t believe my story’s true ask the blind man he saw it too! ( o_0′ ooohkay)_______________________________________________Ever noticed how all women’s problems begin with men?MENtal illness….MENstrual cramps… MENtal breakdown… MENopause… GUYnocologist ! ____________________________13 WEIRD QUESTIONS1) Are children who act in rated ‘R’ movies allowed to see them?2) When French people swear do they say pardon my English?3) “Cute as a button” Is that supposed to be a compliment? Since when are buttons cute?4)Why did Yankee Doodle name the feather in his hat Macaroni?5)Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, “I think I’ll squeeze these dangly things here and drink what comes out”?6)Who was the first person to say, “See that chicken over there … I’m gonna eat the first thing that comes out if its butt”?7)Isn’t Disney World just a people trap operated by a mouse?8)Why is it illegal to park in a handicapped parking space but its ok to use a handicapped toilet?9)Why is it that if something says, “do not eat” on the packaging it becomes extra tempting to eat?10) Don’t you find it weird we teach our kids: scrub a dub dub, three men in a tub?11) Why would superman want to leap over the tallest building in a single bound if he can fly?12) Why is the name of the phobia for the fear of long words Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?13) If when people freak out they are said to be “having a cow”, when cows freak out are they said to be “having

A: i laughed the whole time, those were some good ones and i never heard or read them b4…..