Currently a heart can be transplanted only within about 6 hours of removal from a living donor.
The muscle cells can retain viability for about 12 to 24 hours after death or removal, but some critical cells may not respond after about 6 hours, even when well oxygenated.
If a patient dies and there is no life support, practically all of the heart cells die within an hour from lack of oxygen and accumulation of metabolic waste.
The eyes can stay alive for 25 hrs.
The eyes can stay alive for 25 hrs.
You can't live without a heart.
It can cause a very painful death, due to air embolism, as the heart starves for blood to stay alive.
ALL of it.....you want to have a healthy heart to BE alive or to STAY alive
kittens stay alive for 15 years
I think they stay alive for maybe 10-13 yrs.?
you could probably be badly injured but still stay alive
well they just live.cause they have beating heart.
As long as you want it to.
about 25 years
1 year