The brain is still running a few seconds after the heart stops!

A few years ago, American researchers said they discovered a short state of consciousness after death. According to them, the heart would still work a few seconds after stopping the heart. This research may help to improve the quality of resuscitation in the future, among other things.

Life after death

Some companies seek to completely avoid death, like Nectome, the startup that would make us immortal. There are also some disciplines such as cryopreservation (cryonics), a process of conservation at very low temperatures with the hope of eventually bringing humans back to life.

But who knows what happens after death? Is there another kind of life? Researchers at the New York University School of Medicine (USA) explained in a 2014 study that when we die, we have fully aware. Indeed, our brain would still running a short time after stopping the heart.

Poignant testimonies

Brain activity that continues for a few moments after stopping the heart necessarily implies an awareness of what is happening around us. According to the study, survivors of a heart attack testified, saying they were aware – while these were in a state of clinical death – before being brought back to life.

"They will describe having watched doctors and nurses work, they will be aware of being fully aware of ongoing conversations, visual events in progress, of which they would not be aware," explained Dr. Sam Parnia, lead author of the study.

Effects on survivors

The study also indicates that survivors of a heart attack have come out better from this experience. They would have become more inclined to help others or find meaning in life. Scientists hope that this research can in the future to improve the quality of resuscitationbut also prevent brain damage when restarting the heart.

Finally, let's mention the fact that this research is the opposite of what happens in the film The forbidden experience (Joel Schumacher, 1991). In this fiction, the dead return to life with memories they had lost before.

Sources: The Daily Mail – Digital Century

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