People Still Conscious After Death?

[identityissues8]

People still conscious after death, study says

PEOPLE may still have consciousness after “death”.

A study involving 2060 patients from 15 hospitals in the UK, US and Austria has found that patients experience real events for up to a three-minute period after their heart has stopped beating.

Dr Sam Parnia, director of resuscitation research at the State University of New York, explained that it was previously thought that only hallucinatory events were experienced in these circumstances.

These are normally described as out-of-body experiences (OBEs) or near-death experiences (NDEs).

The Awareness during Resuscitation (Aware) study, sponsored by the University of Southampton in the UK, used objective markers to establish whether the experiences were real or hallucinatory.

The results showed that 39 per cent of patients who survived cardiac arrest described a perception of awareness but did not have explicit recall.

A total of 46 per cent experienced a broad range of mental recollections, nine per cent had experiences compatible with NDEs and two per cent exhibited full awareness compatible with OBEs with explicit recall of “seeing” and “hearing” events.

And one case was validated and timed using auditory stimuli during cardiac arrest.

“This is significant, since it has often been assumed that experiences in relation to death are likely hallucinations or illusions, occurring either before the heart stops or after the heart has been successfully restarted, but not an experience corresponding with ‘real’ events when the heart isn’t beating,” Dr Parnia said.

“In this case, consciousness and awareness appeared to occur during a three-minute period when there was no heartbeat. This is paradoxical, since the brain typically ceases functioning within 20 to 30 seconds of the heart stopping and doesn’t resume again until the heart has been restarted.”

www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/people-still-conscious-after-death-study-says/story-fneuz9ev-1227083224021

This is just weird.

 

[DrLeftover]

Well, Duh.

I guess they missed that day in high school science class where they said it takes the brain up to five minutes to die from lack of oxygenated blood flow.

 

[Nebulous]

Well, Duh.

I guess they missed that day in high school science class where they said it takes the brain up to five minutes to die from lack of oxygenated blood flow.

I don't remember learning that, but it does sound interesting.

 

[DrLeftover]

Well, Duh.

I guess they missed that day in high school science class where they said it takes the brain up to five minutes to die from lack of oxygenated blood flow.

I don't remember learning that, but it does sound interesting.

You weren't there that day.

 

[Nebulous]

I was probably down the street stealing candy bars from the grocery store. :halo2:

jk

 

[Jazzy]

Well, Duh.

I guess they missed that day in high school science class where they said it takes the brain up to five minutes to die from lack of oxygenated blood flow.

+2

 

[DrLeftover]

Thank you Miss Lady.

Cerebral hypoxia

Cerebral hypoxia occurs when there is not enough oxygen getting to the brain. The brain needs a constant supply of oxygen and nutrients to function.

Cerebral hypoxia refers to the outer part of the brain, an area called the cerebral hemisphere. However, the term is often used to refer to a lack of oxygen supply to the entire brain.

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Brain cells are extremely sensitive to a lack of oxygen. Some brain cells start dying less than 5 minutes after their oxygen supply disappears. As a result, brain hypoxia can rapidly cause severe brain damage or death.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001435.htm

 

[identityissues8]

Guess I was playing hooky that day too - I did that fairly often.

 

[Evil Eye]

I'm with the "well duh"-people, there's a reason brain dead is a term.