[agarren]

That doesn’t seem very likely from my reading. It sounds like it’s not unheard of for prion-diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob to take a while to destroy a person. The poor lady fta apparently had a genetic component that contributed to the latency. Brutal. Inducing dormancy in this and similar cases would effectively present a treatment, if not a cure, to an hereto untreatable, uncurable disease.

> … the woman first visited doctors with tremors and trouble balancing. As is often the case, once symptoms started, her condition rapidly worsened. She was hospitalized … and several days into her stay, she fell into a coma that she would never awaken from.

In other news, apparently hgh used to be extracted from cadavers. Wtlf.

[klipt]

They still get other stuff from cadavers.

Like for gum transplant, they offer cadaver gum vs autologous gum taken from the patient's upper palate...

I'd advise avoiding the cadaver gum. I assume they think it's safe or they wouldn't use it, but there could be unknown risks...

[dralley]

To be honest, it's a bit comforting to know that it happened quickly. Better in some ways than a long, slow degradation of the mind from which there's no recovery.

[s3graham]

> In other news, apparently hgh used to be extracted from cadavers.

Creatine too.