Posted on 04/17/2019 9:48:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
A new study suggests your consciousness carries on after your heart stops beating.
WE know we are dead when we die because our brains keep working to make us aware of what's happening around us, haunting new research suggests.
Top medical experts have forever been at loggerheads over what happens when humans die, with anecdotal evidence of bright lights and flashes reported by people who have 'come back' being the cause of much debate.
However a new study suggests your consciousness carries on functioning after your heart stops beating and your body movements fail.
This means you are essentially 'trapped' inside your dead body with your brain still working, if only for a short time.
Survivors of cardiac arrest were aware of what was going on around them while they were 'dead' before being 'brought back to life', the study revealed.
More surprising still, there is evidence to suggest the deceased may even hear themselves being pronounced dead by doctors.
Dr Sam Parnia is studying consciousness after death and examining cardiac arrest cases in Europe and the US.
He says people in the first phase of death may still experience some form of consciousness.
The expert ventured that people who have survived cardiac arrest later accurately described what was happening around them after their hearts stopped beating.
He said: "They'll describe watching doctors and nurses working, they'll describe having awareness of full conversations, of visual things that were going on, that would otherwise not be known to them."
Explaining when a patient is officially declared dead, he said: "It's all based on the moment when the heart stops.
"Technically speaking, that's how you get the time of death."
His study is examining what happens to the brain after a person goes into cardiac arrest - and whether consciousness continues after death and for how long - to improve the quality of resuscitation and prevent brain injuries while restarting the heart.
Unlike the plot in Flatliners, however, when a person is resuscitated they don't return with a "magical enhancement" of their memories, said Dr Parnia.
I have...................several times...............
So the scientists have been dead? or are they guessing?
its doing an orderly shutdown, active pages are being marked as unused by the memory manager as processes terminate.
When you die ‘you KNOW you’re dead because your brain keeps working’
“Before the advent of opiods, people would either be smiling or screaming at the point of death based on which floor the elevator was heading.”
Calling BS on that.
I’ve “died” twice, and the only thing I saw, both times, was a rerun of Welcome Back Kotter.
They interviewed a bunch of politicians.
They have been brain dead for years.................
As opposed to Democrats whose brain has stopped working, yet are still alive.
I see sleep as a hard drive defrag and dreams are just the memory being rearanged and some of it resides briefly in RAM, and the CPU is trying to interpret it.
“What a nightmare. Hope it’s only for a short period of time - like seconds.”
6 minutes
"What is? is. What was? will be. What will be *was*, but will be again."
I guess it make sense if there is still blood and oxygen in your brain
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Even without the standard prevalence of oxygen, your neurotransmitters can still work, although this wouldn’t last long. How long is the question.
No, the oxygen requirements for muscle tissue is too high.
You will not be moving very long after the heart stops. About as long as a shot deer twitches, and that is it.
Brain tissue uses much less oxygen.
We’ve been in a zombie apocalypse for many decades. It’s just that it became the new normal. Fortunately, it takes more than just getting bitten to become one of them, and they can even be turned normal sometimes.
Maybe that is your eternal afterlife. Heaven or Hell? I'm not a good enough theologian or TV critic to tell.
When you are dead, your brain is dead too.
You can only “know” you are dead, because your soul is floating away from your body.
If you don’t believe you have a soul, then you are dead, when your body is dead.
It’s long been believed that hearing is the last to go.
Six minutes would be a relatively long time.
Thinking of what our loved ones might’ve heard... Everyone crying, etc.
Most people at that point have their eyes closed, and even if open, once circulation stops vision would stop immediately as well. Think about pulling Gs in an aircraft: At around 5 Gs most people will start to lost peripheral vision and approaching roughly 9 Gs will fall unconscious. With no blood pressure you’re not seeing anything, period, proving that those who do are in the spirit and are outside their bodies at that point.
My Dad died of cancer in 2007 at age 81 - I was resting my hand on his shoulder when he breathed his last and said my Mom’s name - she had passed 13 years before. I don’t know if he saw her, or felt her presence.
Both..........................
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