After you die, your brain knows you’re dead, terrifying study reveals

http://nypost.com ^ | 10/20/2017 | Andrea Downey, The Sun

[LibWhacker]

When Blackbeard the pirate was killed during the battle to capture him, his headless body was thrown overboard, whereupon it swam around the naval vessel three times in defiance before it sank from view... Supposedly...

Maybe the seat of consciousness is in the heart after all?

[Hazwaste]

Only terrifying if you’re afraid of death...and what comes after.

[NonValueAdded]

thoughts?

exactly!

[Sacajaweau]

Not on the old record players. You had to physically lift the needle and change the record or go back to the beginning.

[FreeReign]

If you still have brain activity after cardiac arrest, then it sounds to me that you are still alive. Death occurs only after brain activity ceases.

[Salvavida]

Don’t die without Jesus as your Lord and Saviour. Problem solved.

[elcid1970]

Wow! We’re talking wind-up Victrolas, now. Is somebody on FR actually older than me?

I’m still trying to process phonographs as metaphors for the death process.

;^)

[Sacajaweau]

No...we’re not back to Victrola. Do a little googling.

[Sacajaweau]

I’m 73.

[Popman]

——Because of Jesus, I do not fear death.——

Oh’ death where is thy sting?

[abclily]

Yes, very sad, when we know that God made all scientific substance. How can God be incompatible with His own creation?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

It certainly makes the prospect of decapitation...especially by Guillotine...that much more horrifying.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Years ago, in the military, I met a man who had worked in a mortuary before joining the military. He said they talked to the bodies as they worked on them, telling the body what they are going to do next, because...”They can still hear as hearing is the last thing to go.”

[mairdie]

>>phone calls start to taper off

Wonderful!

Wasn’t there some story from the French Revolution about someone planning to keep blinking an eye after his head was cut off to let a research assistant know how long he could think after it happened. That is a dedicated researcher!

[stars & stripes forever]

GOD’S Two Minute Warning
https://smile.amazon.com/Gods-Two-Minute-Warning-John-Hagee/dp/0849956374/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1508512803&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=john+hagee%2Cminute+after

[Deplorable American1776]

What about BRAIN-DEAD congresspeople? When do they know they are dead. 😀

[MayflowerMadam]

My dad was a pastor and has been at the bedside of many people when they died. Often, just as a person was passing, some would open their eyes and seem to look beyond what was happening around them, and some would smile as if they recognized someone, some would speak a phrase, and some would do both.

[chimera]

That kind of jibes with what my Dad did when he died. I was at his bedside in his final hours. He was not responsive, was propped up in his bed to relieve pressure on his back. He started making "reaching" movements with his one arm a few minutes before he passed. Then he used both arms in a reaching outward motion. The nurses said they'd seen this before in other patients at near-death. They said it was a kind of "climbing out" of the body.

After he was gone and I was on the way home it occurred that maybe those were embracing motions, greeting people he knew when they were meeting him as he crossed over. I don't know, but it seems as likely as any other explanation, at least for those of us who believe in life after this earthly one is completed.

[DungeonMaster]

I always wondered if you got your head cut off if your head and mind would be able to briefly see your decapitated body.

[crosdaddy]

I read your reply, than your FReeper name, I started laughing out loud and everybody in the office was looking at me.