Name of Speaker, name of talk and URL

Mark Roth, Mark Roth: Suspended animation is within our grasp,

http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_roth_suspended_animation.html

Brief description or summary of talk

Mark Roth discusses the idea of suspended animation. The process of reanimating a living creature and then reanimating it at a future date with no harmful side effects. The way he does this is by having the subject breath in a chemical known as Hydrogen Sulfide, which binds to our cells instead of oxygen, which reduces our need for air and allowing subjects to live in areas of extremely low oxygen content. All the subject needs to do to reanimate is simply be put out in the open air at room temperature, no complex recovery techniques required.

Your impressions of the talk including a discussion of what was most significant to you and why

The ability to effectively make a person immortal is awesome. This talks about a different way of suspended animation of which the only other way I knew of was with cryogenics. The implications in the medical field are miraculous, but only so if in Mark's words, "they become more common".