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After you die, your brain knows you’re dead, terrifying study reveals
http://nypost.com ^ | 10/20/2017 | Andrea Downey, The Sun

Posted on 10/20/2017 4:47:54 AM PDT by heterosupremacist

"... Death, in a medical sense, is when the heart stops beating and cuts off blood to the brain.

This means the brain’s functions also stop and can no longer keep the body alive.

Parnia explained that the brain’s cerebral cortex — the so-called “thinking part” of the brain — also slows down instantly, and flatlines, meaning that no brainwaves are visible on an electric monitor, within 2 to 20 seconds.

“At the same time, we also study the human mind and consciousness in the context of death, to understand whether consciousness becomes annihilated or whether it continues after you’ve died for some period of time — and how that relates to what’s happening inside the brain in real time,” he said.

It is not the first time brain activity after death has been recorded.

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To: heterosupremacist

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?


21 posted on 10/20/2017 5:47:28 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: heterosupremacist

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


22 posted on 10/20/2017 5:52:39 AM PDT by Hazwaste (Democrats are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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To: heterosupremacist
thoughts?

exactly!

23 posted on 10/20/2017 5:54:56 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: elcid1970

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


24 posted on 10/20/2017 5:55:51 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: heterosupremacist

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.


25 posted on 10/20/2017 6:11:36 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: heterosupremacist

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


26 posted on 10/20/2017 6:31:23 AM PDT by Salvavida (The Missouri citizen's militia sends its regards.)
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To: Sacajaweau

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.

;^)


27 posted on 10/20/2017 7:23:23 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The ,Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: elcid1970

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


28 posted on 10/20/2017 7:25:05 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: elcid1970

I’m 73.


29 posted on 10/20/2017 7:25:59 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: bmwcyle

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

Oh’ death where is thy sting?


30 posted on 10/20/2017 7:33:48 AM PDT by Popman (My sin was great, Your love was greater  What could separate us now…)
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To: Bryanw92

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


31 posted on 10/20/2017 7:38:58 AM PDT by abclily
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To: heterosupremacist

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


32 posted on 10/20/2017 7:44:57 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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To: heterosupremacist

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.”


33 posted on 10/20/2017 8:15:58 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone tries to burn you out, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

>>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!


34 posted on 10/20/2017 8:16:25 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: heterosupremacist

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


35 posted on 10/20/2017 8:20:26 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12")
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To: heterosupremacist
What about BRAIN-DEAD congresspeople? When do they know they are dead. 😀
36 posted on 10/20/2017 11:55:06 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is :-))
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To: heterosupremacist

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.


37 posted on 10/20/2017 12:02:38 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (A person's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
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.

38 posted on 10/20/2017 12:14:10 PM PDT by chimera
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To: heterosupremacist

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


39 posted on 10/20/2017 12:15:57 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (Goblins, Orcs and the Undead: Metaphors for the godless left.)
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To: DungeonMaster

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


40 posted on 10/20/2017 12:22:10 PM PDT by crosdaddy
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