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2025-06-18 Science & Technology

Scientists Record Brain Activity in Deceased Patient

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Posted by badanov 2025-06-18 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [210 views ] Top

#1 Now try Biden!

Posted by Skidmark 2025-06-18 02:53|| 2025-06-18 02:53|| Front Page Top

#2 OK, we understand the brain needs fresh O2 enriched blood to stay alive.

With age, there is decay, with reduce blood and O2 flow issues start kicking in.

Or look at the other fact.
Given the well known fact, many a person has been given CPR and brought back from being dead for 2 to 4 mins after a heart stoppage. Kinda indicates the brain is still alive and registering something about what is going on around it for some time.

So, whether the many related health issues related to dying kick in a dual "Here and Hereafter" scenario is a valid question.

Sharing a personal note.
In our case... My 91 y/o Mother-in-law, a sweet angel of a person. Told us she would be dying that day, about 14 hours before she did. Family, being told of her warning, flew in from the Midwest or drove hours to be at her deathbed. She passed with her family around her.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-06-18 06:52|| 2025-06-18 06:52|| Front Page Top

#3 A few months ago a friend survived a cardiac arrest and recovered with no neurological deficits.

He told me about the experience. One second he was dizzy and sat down to rest, the next thing he remembers was one of the paramedics calling his name.

As it happened, one of the people he was playing golf with knew CPR, another witness was a retired physician. There was an AED within a 100 feet of where he was and someone got it and used it.

He remembers none of that, no light at the end of a tunnel, no voices.

Maybe the brain can function at some level after cardiac arrest, but in my friend's case he has no memory of it.

Posted by EMS Artifact 2025-06-18 10:30|| 2025-06-18 10:30|| Front Page Top

#4 My personal recollection was that I simply fell asleep. No light, no friends or welcoming relatives (either I have none or their bus was late...I'll assume the former.).

Well, the staff finally got my heart restarted and, after a 10-day "nap" and a few more drooling in my shoe, I began to, with assistance, shuffle across the floor. And while staring at the floor tiles, I heard the darndest thing - never heard anything like it before. I asked the nurse if she heard anything, and she answered in the negative.

The closest I could describe the noise was in afterwards recalling a Gregorian Chant CD I've had for 40 years and last listened to it 30+ years ago. Close, but not the same.

Was watching television a couple of years later and I heard the sound again. On the screen was a television segment covering Throat Singers. And this was the exact sound I heard in the hospital - overtone singing.

Submitted fwiw.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2025-06-18 20:04|| 2025-06-18 20:04|| Front Page Top

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