If we can halt or slow the decomposition of cells - especially the early break down (first 1-3 hours) we could revive a person.

The whole idea of freezing the body to revive later on is based on our basic understanding that we can restart a body - as long as it hasn't rotted away.

We are a fair distance away from finding methods to keep a body from rotting without destroying cells in the process. Freezing causes ice to form which slices and bursts cells - thus killing them.

If there was another way to freeze a body without breaking cells, it is feasible that we could freeze people indefinitely and bring them back at a later time.

I really do not understand how this case is possible. Cellular damage from death should have set in rather rapidly. Even cooling the body to slow that process down doesn't extend for 17 hours - more like 3 at the most.

Most likely she was still 'active' but at a level so low the doctors couldn't detect it.

Not really dead - just really, really slow and barely living.