It’s more accurate to what it is literally doing, and harkons to the reanimator kit in Aliens: Dark Decent which was similar to a defib in aesthetic but called the Reanimator Kit.
Defib won’t save a dead guy, their heart isn’t fibbin’. But a reanimator kit sounds cooler too
when you get ‘killed’ you’re not dead, you’re in cardiac arrest, and the medics have that set 5~ minutes of time to defibrillate your heart before you go braindead (perma)
the health scanner says as much,
please god do not bring back marines from the dead like zombies i’m going to cry. we are SILLY ENOUGH with chems that can magically heal severe ultrahellfuck burns and gel that melds broken bones together
The reanimator kit was for marines who were in a coma, not marines who died.
I think they’re getting at the fact that defibrillators don’t help with cardiac arrest, they help with certain cardiac arrhythmias.
That being said, I think this is way too much of a 
issue and we should just leave it as is.
ermmm no this is important lore implications we’er talking about here…
so true taller
this is what we need to be talking about
reanimator kit has a cooler name, and you could argue when the marines were in a ‘coma’ in Aliens: Dark Decent that it is no different to our dying state.
Would you rather:
A. A medic that revives you incorrectly with an incorrect tool
B. A medic reviving you incorrectly but with a scifi named tool so medical nerds don’t get bothered?
If B, reanimator kit…
If you can reanimate a suicide marine, then sure change the name; if not, we’ll go with the defib
“Reanimator” is such a silly word, it sounds like some necromancer’s subclass in an RPG
I’m into that name change, it brings us closer to acknowledging the fact that HMs are liches, who crush their enemy with endless, expendable hordes
Horus will be proud of this, death to the Imperium.
Wait, are we not talking about the movie?
You can be clinically dead and still get revived.
when a marine dies it doesn’t mean they’re dead, it means that they’re clincally “dead” aka the heart isn’t beating right or whatever, this is why the marines still have a heartbeat symbol, when they’re perma it means the heart has stopped beating completely.
“lou why do we have a 5 minute clinical death timer then?” because the longer you wait to revive someone the more likely it is they incur brain damage from lack of blood.