31st August 2006, 11:49 AM
Not sure I follow. It's not like they give up on saving you sooner if they can get at your delicious organs or something. I mean when I'm dead, that's it. There's no point letting perfectly good flesh go to waste.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)