Resurrecting the Dead: Strange True Stories from Science.

Some people have tried to bring the dead back into the world of the living by fascinating ways. These people, were were not magicians or spiritual healers but scientists. Athough their experiments were controversial, they helped to shape lots of things from heart surgery to our modern understanding of what it means by "death." Below are three true stories on early attempts of resurrection in the field of science. 1. Giovanni Aldini: The Showman of the Dead. In 1803, a crowd gathered outside Newgate Prison in London to witness a miracle. A dead man was being brought back to life. The person to be ressurrected was George Forster, a recently executed murderer. The scientist was Giovanni Aldini, the man who had discovered "animal electricity." Aldini believed that if electricity could make a frog’s legs twitch, it could also revive the dead. He connected Forster’s corpse to a crude battery and let the current flow. Many people were suprised, The corpse's hands a...