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A Study Says That The Brain Continues To Function After The Heart Stops, So You Are Aware Of Your Death

A Study Says That The Brain Continues To Function After The Heart Stops, So You Are Aware Of Your Death

Properly speaking, it is clear that we are totally ignorant of what death has in store for us. Nevertheless, all over the world, thousands of people who have experienced an imminent death experience report incredibly consistent evidence. After finding themselves in a clinical death and being brought back to life, these people recount the same story.

Accused of quackery for a long time, witnesses of the IME are now taken very seriously by some scientists and research is coming closer and closer to the solution to this nebulous conundrum. Indeed, according to our colleagues in the Daily Mail, a study says that for a few seconds, your brain continues to work even when your heart stops beating. In other words, it means that when the fate comes, you are aware of your own death!

What happens after death?
What does death hold for us? It is one of the greatest mysteries of humanity yet unexplained. Between beliefs, convictions and skepticism, science has no real answer to the question. Yet, one study says that brain activity still continues a few seconds after stopping the heart. If one considers that consciousness is produced by the brain, it would mean that at death, the human being would be fully aware of what is happening to him.

The study is based on near-death experiences, which reveal that even after their clinical "death", survivors of heart attacks, resuscitated and then brought back to life, could very accurately describe what happened around them after that their hearts had stopped beating. Thus, scientists suggest that it is likely that a deceased may hear the announcement of his own death.

Dr. Sam Parnia, a researcher at Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York and his team, looked closely at an individual's state of consciousness after death, studying cases of cardiac arrest in New York City. Europe and the United States.

From science fiction to reality
The idea, at first sight completely surreal, makes us think of the plot of the film Flatliners, which tells the story of a group of medical students who practiced experiments by resurrecting themselves after being arrested. heart. However, unlike Niels Arden Oplev's thriller, Dr. Parnia explains that in reality, the person does not come back to life with memories and visions. Indeed, in the film, the "apprentices" doctors are then haunted by the visions of their past, which is not the case after an EMI (Experience of Imminent Death). Dr. Parnia states that when a person is resuscitated, they do not return with a "magical enrichment" of their memories.

The researcher told Live Science that they "will describe watching doctors and nurses work, they can even give details of things that happened or certain conversations while they were clinically dead."

According to Dr. Parnia, the hour of death being technically declared when the heart stops beating, brain function stops almost instantly. Indeed, between the moment when the heart stops beating and the moment when the brain stops working, it happens about thirty seconds. Nevertheless, he says that even when the cerebral cortex slows significantly, brain cells continue to be active for hours after stopping the heart.

Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), also known as Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), ensures the oxygenation of organs even when a person stops breathing and is in a state of unconsciousness. According to Dr. Parnia, performing a CPR on an individual whose heart has stopped will send about 50% of the blood he needs to the brain, which is enough to revive his duties. He adds: "If you manage to restart the heart, you will gradually restore the functioning of the brain."

With advances in resuscitation, more and more imminent death experiences are being identified around the world. According to Dr. Parnia and his team, patients who have experienced it are usually transformed, so they become more selfless and more committed to helping others.

To emphasize that the objective of this research is above all to improve the quality of resuscitation and to prevent brain damage when restarting the heart. In addition, the people who experienced this experience are not dead, they were saved at a very close stage of death. So no one can concretely affirm what really awaits us when fatality occurs.
Brain Continues To Function After The Heart Stops