Low doses of hydrogen sulphide, a gas which smells like rotten egg, can safely reduce the metabolism of mice, putting them into a stateofsuspendedanimation.
"You get a stateofsuspendedanimation and the creatures do not pass away, and that's the basis of what we see as an alternative way to think about critical care medicine, " Roth says.
And that distinction between a common currency and shared economic governance, coupled with continued political sovereignty is now proving to be a Frankenstein that is putting the world economy into a stateofsuspendedanimation.
Those most deeply involved are in a stateof nerve-wracking suspendedanimation until the ruling drops, constantly scouring Twitter for rumours of rumours and Scotusblog for facts.