Would that mean I'm technically dead, though?

[oneirophrenia]

Artificial hearts don't have to "beat" in order to work.

I mean...it only makes sense: as long as the blood keeps circulating, it does not need to keep circulating in "pulses" the way it does when pushed through our bloodstreams by an annoying clenching muscle.

I'll totally step up to be one of the first people to have such a device implanted. And then I'll run around everywhere telling people, "Hey, feel my heartbeat? Oh, you can't? THAT'S 'CAUSE I DON'T HAVE ONE!"

Then some stupid bastard would probably try to run a stake through me or shoot my head off, no doubt.

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[dj-lollidrop.livejournal.com]

Worse, they'll accuse you of being able to make penises disappear!

:-P

[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

Dude! We could totally be pulseless wonders! Prodigies of a Prodigal Age!

[lyssabard.livejournal.com]

And then all the little babybat honies would be chasing you, begging you to turn them and give them eternal life and...

You know, I see no problems here....

[aidinslevel.livejournal.com]

And the non beating heart would be different from that thing in your chest now, how again..... O_o

[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

Oh, I still have a heartbeat...my blood's just ice cold and my heart, frozen and black and dead. :) You know, 'cause I'm a goth like dat.

[aidinslevel.livejournal.com]

And all along I kept believing you when you said you were *heartless*

[tlttlotd.livejournal.com]

The only way you could pull that line off is if you were wearing the humpty-hump hat, a Hawaiian shirt, and flip-flops.

And they'd STILL be all over you.

[inmostlight.livejournal.com]

Then some stupid bastard would probably try to run a stake through me or shoot my head off, no doubt.

Admit it, is there anybody here who doesn't expect that to be the way you die? I mean, you work at the newspaper, I figured you already had the obit prepared ahead of time.

[tlttlotd.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering how you'd explain it to airport security.

More seriously, what kind of power source does this new model use?