Have you ever thought of death or life after death?
I cannot feel death close to me at this moment, but I feel cheery when I think that I retain consciousness at death.
A website known as the Near Death Experience Research Foundation has been looking compiling stories from the afterlife.
One of the accounts, from a person who was resuscitated after a suicide attempt, reads: “I remember feeling terrified. It was so dark and I could not see anything below me, so it was hard to figure out what was going on.
“As the Beings pulled me into their midst, it seemed squishy and wet, as well as dark and cold. Meanwhile, the Beings all around me were ripping and tearing at me.
“I was thinking that I didn’t like this at all and wanted to go back.”
Another person, a woman only known as Hana P who had an NDE after a battle with pneumonia, said: “I had a vision of a grey area with many scattered boards and beams.
“The Beings all around me were ripping and tearing at me.”
“At the top right is a circular light, which had an incredibly bright centre that was inviting me to enter. Suddenly I realised with horror that it was the transition between life and death.
“I said, ‘I do not want to enter. I have not tried everything in my life.’”
However, not all the NDEs were negative.
A man under the name Richard L said that after a seizure, he was close to death and felt peace.
“I felt an unending love and a sense of peace”
He said: “I felt no pain. I felt an unending love and a sense of peace as I kept floating towards the light.”
Another, Alexander S, who says he was attacked and had to be brought back from the brink by doctors, said: “I saw a very bright light almost like at the end of a tunnel. It made me so warm and happy.
“I could just the see clouds and then I heard voices in the background.”
A person’s blood supply to the brain is immediately cut off once the heart stops working, which marks the official time of someone’s death.
But now, studies have revealed that the dead person’s mind and consciousness continues to work – even for a short period of time – which means they can recognise their own death.
And there is evidence to suggest the “dead person” may even hear their own death being announced.
This new study mirrors the plot line of the new Hollywood re-make of Flatliners.
The film follows a group of medical students experimenting with near-death experiences by taking turns to chemically induce their heart to stop and flatline.
And in the movie, the stars experience some form of afterlife but the reality of the new research is much more frightening.
Dr Sam Parnia, director of critical care and resuscitation research at NYU Langone School of Medicine in New York City, claims people in the first phase of death may still experience some form of consciousness.
He said: “Once that happens, blood no longer circulates to the brain, which means brain function halts almost instantaneously.
“Technically speaking, that’s how you get the time of death.”
“You lose all your brain stem reflexes – your gag reflex, your pupil reflex, all that is gone.”
Dr Sam added: “We also study the human mind and consciousness in the context of death, to understand whether consciousness in the context of death, to understand whether consciousness becomes annihilated, or whether it continues after you’ve died for some period of time – and how that relates to what’s happening inside the brain in real-time.
“And the evidence reveals that people whose heart stopped and then restarted – usually on the operating table – could describe exactly what had been happening around them. The new research is an extension of these findings.”
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He told Live Science: “They’ll describe watching doctors and nurses working and they’ll describe having awareness of full conversation, of visual things that were going on, that would otherwise not be known to them.”
Explaining the moment of death, Dr Sam continued: “It’s all based on the moment when the heart stops.
Source: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/life-after-death/
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Sam Parnia is a British[1] Assistant professor of Medicine at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine where he also is director of research into cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and he is director of the Human Consciousness Project at the University of Southampton. Parnia is known for his work on near-death experiences and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Parnia
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