, who had determined that she could safely transfer small amounts of her own life force into patients. When attacked by an escaped mass murderer demanding to be healed of plasma burns, she reversed the connections, killing the mass murderer while curing herself of a terminal, degenerative disease. In disgust for what she had done, she turned the machine over to Dr. Stephen Franklin and left the station.
It is later used by Dr. Franklin and John Sheridan to heal Michael Garibaldi, who is in a coma, during the first couple of episodes of season two.
Finally, towards the end of season four, Marcus Cole uses the device to heal the mortally wounded Susan Ivanova, at the expense of his own life. His last words to her are "I love you."
In the movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still", there is also a life giving machine. The robot placed Carpenter on a mechanized bed and revived him after he was shot and mortally wounded.
Healers on certain spiritual levels of acuity are able to transfer loving power to others to help their bodies heal themselves. As in physics, the law is 'for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction'. With this in mind, the individual can reverse the force of energy to damage the percipient, which is also called backlash. Those of high spiritual motivation are often attacked by the unknowing and as a result of frustration, the individual can send the energy back to the assailant and damage them equally. It is said that with all the healing and loving power that Jesus carried in his own being, he was also empowered to stop the crucifixion and damage his assailants. He did not because he knew that laying his body down had the greater value for those that followed his teachings.
The "life giver" is a machine that acts similarly. It can save life through energy transfusion or take life through energy depletion. In B5, a machine is used to show this Christian vs. Capital Punishment ideal. In actuality, individuals are able to master this technique for helping others through loving light rays shining through the atmosphere with curative powers developed through prayer and/or meditation.
