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.
What an awful thing to contemplate - "This is it. I'm going, going, going, going, going, gone."
So Judgment Day occurs at the instant of death for these people?
Your claim is neither scientific nor biblical. It is BS.
Gah...now that’s a fate worse than death.
LOL!
“Everyone crying, etc.”
“OK, who’s got the will?”
On the table, while being worked on by doctors, a patient’s eyes are taped shut.
So, how is the patient reporting visual information if it’s his brain that’s ‘seeing’ these things around him?
Hell is not judgment day, it is being locked up in the country jail until the case is adjudicated. Then the prisoner goes from one lockup to the penitentiary—or in this case, the Lake of Fire.
I realize the modern Bible translations have taken hell out of the mix and exchanged it for the grave, but their lie doesn’t effect God’s truth in any way.
When my mother took her last breath, I had to hold my hand up to silence my brother and sister. Granted she had been in a coma but she died just a few minutes after my sister told her to go.
I didn’t want them to say anything they didn’t want her to hear. We left the room after a few minutes.
Kevorkian would have if he could have. He was a ghoul who was obsessed with the process of death.......
He didn't give a rat's ass about "helping" people via assisted suicide, he wanted to be there to personally observe it.
Let go and enjoy the ride.
I highly recommend the book, Visions, Trips, and Crowded Rooms. Doctors', nurses', and hospice stories. It's fascinating.
Wasn’t there some experiments in France during the guillotine era where someone asked those “customers” to do things like blink their eyes in a certain pattern or whatnot?
Eternity is 70’s re-runs? Oh lordy.
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I remember hearing years ago that there's really only one cause of death: a lack of oxygen to the brain. Everything else is just what triggers that.
Pulp fiction...
“What a nightmare. Hope it’s only for a short period of time - like seconds.”
6 minutes
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But it seems like eternity.
Choose wisely.
One can only imagine what they must hear... what we'll all hear...
An interesting read is the account of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. Head severed, and yet showing outrage at the executioner for yanking off her wig.
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.
I would like to think he saw her and was embraced in her loving arms after the 13yrs they were apart. Very touching story.
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