On one hand, I read this story and I think "This can't be real. It's some sort of outlandish prank." But it seems to be real. So, I sit here and try to decide what to think about it, and I find myself dumbfounded. It just seems wrong on any number of levels. The concept of "playing God" seems to get tossed around an awful lot these days, with regard to stem cell research, cloning, etc... I agree that stem cell research, to the extent that it involves harvesting fetuses, is wrong. Human cloning seems wrong to me, too... but far to sci-fi a concept for me to have thought much about. Genetic engineering (the whole designer baby concept) seems wrong to me, too... but all of those issues are pale in comparison to this. If I saw a movie based on the premise that this was happening in labs today, I'd laugh it off as a flimsy premise... but it is happening in labs today! This is real! It's just beyond belief, at least in my opinion. If this isn't the absolute text book definition of "playing God," then I don't know what it is.

Blood Swapping Reanimates Dead Dogs

In a series of nightmarish experiments straight out of a horror flick, scientists at a leading university have killed dozens of dogs — then brought them back to life.

The hapless pooches, who have their blood drained for up to three hours, are being reanimated in a bid to develop the use of suspended animation to help humans who are injured in combat or crime.

"From our standpoint, we believe it's a very important area of research," said Dr. Patrick Kochanek (Read his biography) , director of the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research (search) at the University of Pittsburgh.

So many horror novels come into my head. Pet Semetary, of course, and Frankenstein... and movies like Re-Animator and Night of the Living Dead and Flatliners.

What's that line from Jurassic Park? Something like "You were so concerned with whether or not you could do it, you never stopped to ask yourself if you should do it."

There are things worse than death. This is wrong.