Scientists confirm "there is life after death"
Life after death has been "confirmed". From experts who claim that consciousness continues even once a person's heart has stopped beating.
In a study of over 2.000 people, British scientists confirmed that thinking persists after death. At the same time, they discovered compelling evidence of an out-of-body experience for a patient declared dead by doctors.
Scientists had believed that the brain had ceased all activity for 30 seconds. After the heart stopped pumping blood throughout the body and awareness stopped at the same time.
Life after death: research
But research from the University of Southampton suggests otherwise. A new study shows that people continue to experience awareness for up to three minutes after death.
Speaking of the groundbreaking study, lead researcher Dr Sam Parnia said: “Contrary to perception, death is not a specific time, but a potentially reversible process that occurs after a serious illness or accident causes the heart to stop functioning. lungs and brain.
“If you try to reverse this process, it's called 'cardiac arrest'; however, if these attempts are unsuccessful, yes speaks of 'death' ".
Of the 2.060 patients from Austria, America and the UK surveyed for the study who survived cardiac arrest, 40% said they were able to remember some form of awareness after being declared clinically dead.
Dr Parnia explained the meaning: “This suggests that more people may have mental activity initially. Then you lose your memory after recovery, due to the effects of brain injury or sedative drugs on memory recall. "
Only 2% of patients described their experience as consistent with the sensation of an out-of-body experience. The feeling in which one feels almost completely aware of their surroundings after death.
About half of the respondents said their experience was not one of awareness, but of fear.
Perhaps the most significant finding of the study is that of a 57-year-old man believed to be the first confirmed out-of-body experience in a patient.
The testimony examined by the doctors
After suffering cardiac arrest, the patient revealed that he was able to remember. What was happening around him with disturbing precision after he died temporarily.
Dr Parnia said: “This is significant, as it has often been assumed that death-related experiences are likely to be hallucinations or delusions. They occur before the heart stops or after the heart has been successfully restarted, but not an experience corresponding to 'real' events where the heart is not beating.
“In this case, consciousness and awareness appeared to occur during a three-minute period in which there was no heartbeat.
“This is paradoxical, since the brain typically ceases to function within 20-30 seconds of the heart stopping and no longer resumes until the heart has been restarted.
"Furthermore, the detailed memories of visual awareness in this case were consistent with the events that occurred."