Posted on 10/03/2013 9:31:17 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
“Fascinating,” says medical resuscitation expert Sam Parnia of a recent PLOS One study finding highly unexpected electrical activity in the hippocampus of one man, and 26 cats, with flat-lined “isoelectric” electroencephalograms (EEGs).
The isoelectric flat line—so popular in movies and on TV shows—helps determine if patients are in a brain death they can’t recover from.
(Excerpt) Read more at biosciencetechnology.com ...
Could this explain Democrats?
Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Bacon could have told you that.
Anyone who meditstes could have told you that.
At least a lot of voters...
The best explanation I've heard yet for how Harry Reid manages to keep flapping his jaws.
Just think how many organs may have been harvested from people that weren’t quite dead...
one man and 26 cats
Like me! ;-)
And... if Dr.'s believed they were "dead" and started harvesting the organs...they wouldn't use an anesthetic.
Could this explain Democrats? No way, Jose’. They’re brain death even if they walk and talk. Come to Washington and look at Democrat politicians.
They look like a scene from “Night of the Living Dead”, or “Zombieland”, or both.
BOOKMARK
I resent that. I was 100 percent dead, clinically dead, for at least a minute or two. No heart beat, pulse, brain waves. However, no angels, lights, or disco music either.
There went my book and movie rights, whereas a NYPD officer friend of mine was being beaten to death by a drug gang and he saw angels, all his family, the light at the end of the tunnel, etc.
However, being an Irish cop he got pissed at being killed so he beat the shit out of his main suspect and then took on the other two. It must have been that Irish whiskey that kept him alive.
This article is fascinating since it is showing that there are deeper levels of brain activity even if there is no consciousness or even signs of life.
If they get you with a defibrilator within 5 minutes, you have a better chance of surviving and without much internal damage.
In my case, I survived the cardiac arrest (dropping dead in front of the hospital’s emergency doctor is both good timing and location), with two shots from the Defibrilator; two comas; pneumonia and 50 brain seizures.
Woke up after 6 days of “nothing” and began to focus my eyes on Fox TV. Minor arm injury and breathing problems due to the airtube damaging my bronchial tract. Possibly a little spelling dyslexia but other than that, people say I’m just as crazy now as I was then. In other words, normal.
Who says there isn’t a God?
There’s a short story by Edgar Allen Poe about a man experiencing after-death sensations. Simultaneously boring and interesting. After all, how much can happen to a guy lying there dead? It features a long and detailed description of the corpse’s perceptions of his physical self dying bit by bit. Wish I could remember the title. Anyhow, that’s what this article reminded me of. When I read the story, I thought it was bunk. But now I think, maybe not. Could it be that you were not up for the experience, MadMax? Or that you have deliberately repressed the memory? Or maybe you weren’t dead long enough...
What does 26 cats have to do with it?
I think Bob Hope has something to say on that.
That is what I was wondering
From a page about his book "Proof of Heaven":
"Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress.Then, Dr. Alexander’s own brain was attacked by a rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion—and in essence makes us human—shut down completely. For seven days he lay in a coma. Then, as his doctors considered stopping treatment, Alexander’s eyes popped open. He had come back.
Alexander’s recovery is a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself.
Alexander’s story is not a fantasy. Before he underwent his journey, he could not reconcile his knowledge of neuroscience with any belief in heaven, God, or the soul. Today Alexander is a doctor who believes that true health can be achieved only when we realize that God and the soul are real and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a transition."
Note: this topic was posted 10/4/2013. Thanks bunkerhill7.
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