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.
Bizarre & creepy beyond words.
IMHO based on this story and a few personal ones I’ve encountered, I find it very difficult to believe there is nothing beyond this veil of life.
+ 1 million
The harp playing over the clouds has to be a lie brought forth by the devil regarding heaven in order to shut down any thoughts of real hope.
There’s more than a few verses regarding wine and “fruit of the vine” in eternity. I assume that means barley as well ;)
Not only will we work in Heaven at what we were made to want to do, but we will also take equal care & attention to wanting to assist our fellow man there as well.
We cannot even fathom .00001% of what The Father has in store for us:
1 Corinthians 2:9
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
A gal from our old church had a weird story. Her father(?) had passed away. She and others had been by his side for another long day in the hospital. The nurses said he was resting comfortably, and said they should go home to get some sleep.
Of course in the middle of the night she got the call that he had died. They rushed to the hospital, and of course were all upset that he had died alone.
The nurse replied: “Oh - he didn’t die alone. His brother was with him when he passed.”
“His brother?”
“Yes - he said he just came into town.”
“You spoke to him?”
“Briefly. He said he wanted to see John, so we let him in.”
“What did he look like?”
Of course they described the various distinguishing features, and they looked in on them once during the half-hour visit until the father dad.
Yes - the brother had been dead for many years.
The lady that told me the story seemed normal in every other respect. Although I imagine the mind can make up a pretty good story to save one the trauma if they were so upset over their dad dying alone.
I’ve also read where ghosts are not the dear-departed, but demons taking on their appearance. Who knows?
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