Fabrice Muamba

being dead is a medical term for when the heart stops beating (something along those lines and its not a precise definition). Even after death, the cells in your brain may still be functional for a few hours. I remember seeing a Horizon episode where they actually stopped people's heart to do surgery on their brain:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...state-of-suspended-animation-for-surgery.html

edit: never mind

They kept him ventillated - so long as the brain gets Oxygen then it should be okay. The CPR would have pumped the blood around, in effect an artificial heartbeat.

early signs are positive, but still a long way to go, hope he makes a full recovery and gets back on to the pitch.

I would sadly say he's not that likely to return to football as a player, even if he's 100% fit - I would be highly dubious that Bolton would be able to insure him, if nothing else - plus there is always the spectre of it happening again (unless he's totally cleared)

Stay classy.... United...

ugh "grief junkies".

I hate people who use that word. They seem to use it as an excuse to post jokes and hateful messages on varios pages/sites often commemorating the life of a passed on person, or in this case people hoping Muamba would recover, and I personally think it's sick. Even if anywhere near the number of "grief junkies" they claim exist actually did - is it ok to make sick jokes about someone critically ill, and or dead because of them? Do they forget about the family and close ones to the actual person the pages and tributes are usually for exist?

IMO it's a disgrace.

Please tell me that isn't real? FFS, that's disgusting. The people who made that should be ashamed of themselves

It's real they are defending it to the hilt on twitter, which is where i got the image from btw.

That's a disgrace...

"grief junkies" for wishing a young man who has a young son all the best after he had a heart attack and was looking very very serious for him and the fact that he was "dead" for over an hour. I'd wish anyway that happened to the best, it just got more attention because he was a footballer, which means it was in the limelight and it's like footballers are immune to such things happening to them because there in such peak condition that it's frighting to think.

I was genuinely upset by the whole thing, as it brought back a lot of recent personal memories for me but I'm sure anybody with any bit of feelings would have been some bit upset by what happend Fabrice and not because they were "grief junkies"


The people who did that photo should be ashamed of themselvs

I made a thread but deleted after seeing Alf posted the cover here. Poor taste from the editor.

The point they are trying to make can probably be understood but they couldn't have went about it a more worse way than that.

Like abo's posts then?

This is true.

Point was so poorly made - good luck defending that...

its great this lad is coming around.

The point that people were socked and upset at the fact that a young man of 23 years of age who seemed to be incredibly fit could just collapse like that were doing it just to be grief junkies? I don't see the point they're trying to make to be honest. It goes to show it could happen to anybody at anytime.

If it happened to a 40 or 50 or 60 year old with a history of chronic drug abuse and alcohol abuse who didn't look after themselves and people were getting upset about it I could see there point but like I said not somebody like Fabrice.

maybe there is a point in there somewhere... but please, can we still have some taboo's in society left intact... think it, dont
say it

i dont want to live in a world where 'get well soon' is frowned upon!

You should read what they are trying to say. At times some people did seem to be playing who can be concerned the most.

Read this, it's a good point. Everyone wanted Muamba to be safe and recover, but a lot of the "grief" was over the top: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/mar/21/fabrice-muamba-self-congratulation?CMP=twt_gu

Understandable.

For me, it smacks of the week-long Kony mania...