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 had a heart attack. I first fainted and fell on the floor with enough force to break my nose and a finger. I had no memory of from just before I fainted till the time I woke up without realizing I was injured until I saw blood on the floor. It would have been a very peaceful yet sudden ending.
I’m going to Brooklyn to be a Sweathog?
Wait a minute......Barbarino or Horshack?
So it's a little more involved than just the heart stopping.
. The near death experiences while under general anesthesia profoundly differ because some part of the person regains some kind of consciousness in spite of the anesthesia. Now I get spiritual because that leads me to believe that each of us has two kinds of consciousness, a physical consciousness and a spiritual consciousness, with the spiritual consciousness remaining dormant while each of us is physically alive. Then, on the moment of death, or perceived likely death for someone who is psysically conscious, the spiritual consciousness, possibly the soul, separates from the body and takes over, subject to the possibly of being reunited.
I realize this is wild speculation; hence, I invite polite disagreement.
couldn’t they solve this by putting electrodes on the heads of those who are dying to monitor brain wave activity after death and time how long such activity lasts? That sounds like it would be the easiest and more reliable method to get to the bottom of this.
With liberals and Demo-rats the brain is already rotted so there’s nothing there.
I have had 5 general anesthesia ops as well.
Each time I did not know or remember when I dropped out of consciousness, just like turning off a light switch.
Woke up in post-op, once 6 hours later, like waking up from a dream you can’t remember.....................
It would have to be only with the written permission of the patient or their legal guardians.................
Sooner, since you will pass out when your blood pressure drops enough while you are still very much alive.
Funny how people can pass out and have no memory at all of it happening, yet these clowns are proposing that you can not only remember it but also be concious and without a beating heart.
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.
I’m sure that a lot of people would agree to this because it is a topic that interests almost everyone I know. I’d be willing to have that done.
Pleas release me let me go
cause I ain’t breathin’ any mo
To waste my death would be a sin
Release me and let me die again
The headline is hype. This has nothing to do with whether there is some kind of after life...it just has to do with the medical definition of death needing to be reexamined.
Terrifying!
I’ve read a lot about NDE’s over the years. Sometimes it’s easy to weed out the fables, but it’s hard to get over the fact that so many different people from different cultures experience similarities in what they encounter.
Makes one wonder if AOC knows she’s alive.
Grassy field...lots of daisies.
My WWII vet grandfather lived a pretty chaotic and raucous life.
The look in his eyes when he died was one of utter terror and his last words were that he felt ‘hot’.
Hospice workers will tell you similar stories. If that doesn’t make one run to Jesus Christ, nothing will.
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