This is not news. Unless you go into immediate shock in such a way that your brain can no longer consciously process thought, then most every means of death probably causes some very VERY short amount of time when the brain still has some residual oxygen and is processing.
This goes to the definition of “death”. Are you dead when your heart stops, or are you dead when consciousness ceases. I would dare to say, if you are conscious, if even for a brief moment, then you are not yet “dead”. You are rapidly dying but not yet “dead”. It is when body and brain and consciousness all cease together, that you are dead.
So while this is an interesting lesson or reminder, it is not really news and is meaningless.
Yeah, I dunno. I drowned pretty good when I was 15. Had a full after death experience. Angles, interrogation, taken back through my life to explain innumerable incidents, all that and then The Choice. Stairway to heaven and everything. I didn’t have my free will until I was given my choice. Then I looked down and saw my body floating in the water. Just the shoulders though, head was down under the water. Big Whoa at that point.
Thought fast and posed a rhetorical question to the ‘board’. Guy on the left looks at the woman 3 in from the right. When their eyes met -wham, I’m back in the water gasping for air on a sand bar the waves had washed me onto. Every spring I’d practice to pass out under water without breathing in. That’s how you survive drowning. Someone will find you if you float. One breath of water and that’s it you go down.
I’m not afraid of death. It’s like I’m on extra innings. I’ve pissed off a lot of ppl over the years with how important and serious they think they are. Eh, life’s a gift and I’ve been happily wasting mine ever since.
Just wait until they start harvesting your organs while you are still conscious.