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What Happens After You Die? The Brain Keeps Working Long Enough for Thoughts to Form
Newsweek ^ | Oct. 19, 2017 | Joseph Frankel

Posted on 10/19/2017 6:45:43 PM PDT by Innovative

It doesn't allow excerpting

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: brain; death; dying
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To: Innovative

That happened to me while I was in the Walmart Service desk line.


21 posted on 10/19/2017 7:10:28 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Sarcasm is just one more service I provide. Hope you were entertained.


22 posted on 10/19/2017 7:10:36 PM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: BipolarBob

Tell it to the Judge . . .

“But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment” (Matthew 12:36).

If you can still speak in His presence . . .

“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11).


23 posted on 10/19/2017 7:13:50 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Innovative

“I knew I should have waited for the Walk sign.”


24 posted on 10/19/2017 7:21:51 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Bratch

Payday is Thursday!


25 posted on 10/19/2017 7:47:55 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Innovative

it takes no words only thoughts to give our account to God?


26 posted on 10/19/2017 8:00:36 PM PDT by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: Innovative

You pine for the fjords.

L


27 posted on 10/19/2017 8:08:53 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Intolerant in NJ

I was thinking the same thing. Newsweek is disparaging the clinically dead who have returned


28 posted on 10/19/2017 8:23:45 PM PDT by STJPII
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To: Innovative
What Happens After You Die? The Brain Keeps Working Long Enough for Thoughts to Form.

It doesn't allow excerpting

I read this as if it was all part of the headline :)
/grin

29 posted on 10/19/2017 8:24:50 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight (Ich bin ein Deplorable)
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To: Innovative

The science limps on this because no one who really died can even give testimony. Only thing know is brain activity appears to continue after some fallible person or machine said dead. Scientific hubris.


30 posted on 10/19/2017 8:28:04 PM PDT by amihow
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To: NormsRevenge
or listen to barry manilow’s Mandy played backwards at low speed.. hopefully you be astroplaning before the second refrain and el finito sets in.

Well yes, but since it's playing backwards, wouldn't the 2nd refrain be the 1st one you hear ???

31 posted on 10/19/2017 8:33:29 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight (Ich bin ein Deplorable)
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To: BipolarBob
I’ll be thinking “He’s still holding MY beer”.

Post of the day !!! /grin

32 posted on 10/19/2017 8:34:25 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight (Ich bin ein Deplorable)
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To: Innovative

Duh. That is simple.

Just pay the executioners fifty dollars to shoot 20 seconds earlier.

I should have been a Doctor.


33 posted on 10/19/2017 8:35:44 PM PDT by TheNext (FBI FAKE STORY: Lone Shooter, But Died)
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To: Mr_Moonlight

Dat’s a paradeuces above my pay grade.

In a parallel universe. Yes. But no.

Maybe.


34 posted on 10/19/2017 8:45:42 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: captain_dave

I died from cardiac arrest, but fortunately my son had gotten me to the hospital. When he lifted me out of the car, I dropped to the ground - dead - but...

They quickly hit me with a couple shocks from the defibrillator which started the heart up after it was stopped for a minute or two. The big problem was getting an air-tube down deep enough into my lungs to get air flowing into them. Finally they got it and then it was 6 days of two comas, pneumonia, 50 brain seizures, and a nasty back rash before I work up and was okay (got a defib/pacemaker just in case). Could walk after a day or two, clear eyesight came back after about a week or so, could climb stairs up and down, and chase nurses with my intravenous bag hanging from the rack on wheels.

You should have seen those nurses flee in terror. I must have been going a foot a minute. Nearly caught the blond one. Don’t tell my wife.

As the late John Cameron Swazey used to say (about a Bulova watch), “It took a licking but kept on ticking”. Me too.

No angels or lights but I beat the odds on recovering about 5 times not to mention the miracle of my son driving through 6:00 PM DC traffic in a patrol car with no siren. Now that is a miracle in its own class.

Nurses missed the Deadpool by THAT MUCH!

I get my Defib battery changed in a month, as well as getting an upgraded unit itself. Now I’ll be Wi-Fi-ed. Wonder if I can get MTV Oldies.


35 posted on 10/20/2017 1:59:28 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Innovative

Brain dead is different and normally follows the normal “heart stopped” definition of death. The brain function goes “down a steep hill” once oxygenated blood stops arriving but it isn’t strange to think that a lot can go on in that short period of time.


36 posted on 10/20/2017 3:20:00 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Like Wesley in The Princess Bride

Miracle Max: He probably owes you money huh? I'll ask him.
Inigo Montoya: He's dead. He can't talk.
Miracle Max: Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
Inigo Montoya: What's that?
Miracle Max: Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

37 posted on 10/20/2017 4:58:45 AM PDT by captain_dave
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