Towards the Scientific Revival of Human Life After Clinical Death

Sudden cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Within 3–4 minutes of oxygen deprivation, the brain begins to sustain damage; after 4–6 minutes, irreversible injury becomes highly probable, and after 10 minutes, survival with meaningful recovery is rare without advanced intervention. Current techniques such as CPR and defibrillation are only effective within extremely limited windows, while cryonics provides long-term preservation but is impractical in sudden emergencies. Project Qalb presents a conceptual framework that integrates medical science, computational modeling, and ethical/religious dialogue to investigate short-term post-mortem preservation and the potential scientific revival of human life after clinical death. The core vision is to challenge existing boundaries of life and death by exploring whether biological systems can be preserved and revived, potentially redefining the scientific meaning of death.