''Temporarily Dead'' (, literally "Dead for a Moment") is an Israeli
speculative fiction
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medical drama
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TV series.
["מתים לרגע": טלנובלה עם כוחות על]
(Dying for a Moment: A Telenovela with Superpowers), ''Makor Rishon
''Makor Rishon'' ( lit. "Firsthand Source") is a semi-major Israeli newspaper associated with Religious Zionism and the educated liberal-conservative right-wing.
History
''Makor Rishon'' was founded as a weekly magazine in July 1997 in order ...
'', 23 July, 2014
It ran for two seasons: in 2014 and in 2016/2017.
In 2016, it was released in the ''
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
'' under the title ''Project Orpheus''.
In 2025,
Amazon
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announced it was writing drama ''Orpheus Project'' based on the Israeli series.
It was compared with American series ''
Grey's Anatomy
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''.
אם "מתים לרגע" היתה מסתפקת בלהיות חיקוי ל"האנטומיה של גריי" היה קל יותר לכולנו
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Plot
A group of medical interns find out about experiments on clinical death
Clinical death is the medical term for cessation of blood circulation and breathing, the two criteria necessary to sustain the lives of human beings and of many other organisms. It occurs when the heart stops beating in a regular rhythm, a condit ...
and coming back to life conducted by professor Landau ("Orpheus Project"). They decide to run the experiment themselves. They have problems, but also acquire superpower
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s.
See also
*Project Morpheus
Project Morpheus was a NASA project that began in 2010 to develop a vertical takeoff and vertical landing (VTVL) test vehicle called the Morpheus Lander. It is intended to demonstrate a new nontoxic spacecraft propellant system (methane and oxy ...
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2010s medical television series
Israeli drama television series
Israeli speculative fiction television series
Israeli thriller television series
Films about near-death experiences