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 guess it make sense if there is still blood and oxygen in your brain
Till the oxygen is used up and your gray matter begins to rot.
I’ve had my heart stopped 5 times and I still take my cat out for a walk every morning.
Do not turn off brain. System reconfiguring.
You also get an overwhelming urge to vote democrat
Does not the brain control the central nervous system???
The heart stopping should not affect the nervous system if the brain is still functioning...If this is so, then a person could still move with the heart stopped...
What a nightmare. Hope it’s only for a short period of time - like seconds.
I think the basic problem here is assuming that because someone has a definition of death that is accepted means that the definition is accurate.
[[This means you are essentially ‘trapped’ inside your dead body with your brain still working, if only for a short time.]]
I had an NDE- while the brain is ‘still alive’ it’s ‘alive’ in a state of misfiring synapses which is designed to protect the dying brain in a sense- and in such a state, the body I believe usually doesn’t feel much as the mind is working ‘overtime’ misfiring, causing visions- usually of seeing a bright light, but in my case is was black hell-
If you’re dead and you know it clap your hands!
If you’re dead and you know it clap your hands!
If you’re dead and you know it,
Then your brain will surely show it!
If you’re dead and you know it clap your hands!
Bernie Sanders is what the democrat Party looks like after it died and became the evil undead Nazi zombie you see walking around today.
You quickly pass out of consciousness due to lack of blood pressure from your heart stopping. This is within seconds.
I’ve “died” twice, and the only thing I saw, both times, was a rerun of Welcome Back Kotter.
The people who “came back from the dead” were not dead. What they say cannot be used to determine what happens to people who have died.
Eh? “near death” is not death. We know what happens during the “near death” period. We do not know what happens to those who die.
What they are saying here is reasonable and might be true, but can never be proved, so it is not scientific.
Trapped. Bummer. Imagine being Alec Baldwin or Rosie’s ego(s).. trapped in a dead carcass..
Time for an old country standard...
‘Release Me’
What you know seconds after death is whether what you are experiencing is the face of Jesus Christ welcoming you to heaven, or the flames of hell scorching your soul.
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.
If you want to know what it’s like when you die, go under anesthesia for a surgery.
“I guess it make sense if there is still blood and oxygen in your brain”
Yes.
But also people can be completely unconscious with full blood supply, so it’s all speculation.
Yeah, I figured that...That’s why you really aren’t aware of what is going on...You are unconscious...
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