Research results Consciousness persists after death

What happens to the brain when the heart stops beating??

One question humanity has been asking for a long time concerns the experience that a person experiences after he dies or when his heart stops beating. Researchers now found that the brain continues to work for a while after the heart has stopped beating. So give people some more time to spend with them after they die?

Stony Brook University's School of Medicine scientists have found in their current research that if the heart stops beating, the brain will continue to work for some time. The physicians published the results of their study in the English-language journal "Resuscitation".

Scientists examined people with cardiac arrest

There are several reports that a person can understand and hear what is happening around them, even after they have been declared dead. Some experts wanted to analyze this more precisely. The researchers investigated patients with cardiac arrest in Europe and the US for their study. They found that those patients who were successfully revived after a cardiac arrest were able to remember the conversations between the nurses and were aware of their surroundings.

What happens after death?

The time of death is the time when the heart stops beating, explains study author Dr. Sam Parnia of Stony Brook University. When the heart stops beating, it stops pumping blood into the brain and the brain slowly starts to turn off. This process of slowly turning off the brain can take hours, and while the subject is theoretically dead during that time, he or she may still be aware of their environment. The team hopes this study can help treat cardiac arrest and prevent brain damage during resuscitation. At the same time, the experts also examined the human mind and human consciousness associated with death to understand whether consciousness is being extinguished or whether it will persist for some time. They also wanted to show how cardiac death is related to what happens in the brain in real time.

A touch of death changes people

This study suggests that people are trapped in their dead bodies for a while after they have been declared dead. Parnia. People change after having such an experience. The thought region of the brain or the cerebral cortex initially works slower and slower, when the heart stops beating, but the brain cells are still active. When cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is performed now, the heart will restart and the brain will gradually return, explains the study author. Many sufferers who have had such an experience find a new meaning in life after coming into contact with death. (As)