When you die, you actually know that you are dead because your brain is still functioning for a while

When you die, you know that you are dead because the brain continues to function and you know what is going on around you, which is chilling in the back of new research.

Medical experts have long debated what happens to a person's death, with anecdotal evidence of bright lights or sensations, and films such as Flatliners exploring the unknown.

But one study suggests that a person's consciousness continues to function once his heart stops beating and his body movements fail.

This means that they are essentially "trapped" in their dead body, the brain still working for just a short time.

Survivors of a cardiac arrest were aware of what was going on around them while they were "dead" before being "brought back to life," revealed the ## 147 ## # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 39; study.

Even more shockingly, there is some evidence to suggest that the deceased may even be told by a doctor that he is dead.

Dr. Sam Parnia studies consciousness after death and examines cases of cardiac arrest in Europe and the United States.

He added that anecdotal evidence had shown that people in the death phase could still feel some form of consciousness.

The expert told LiveScience that people who had survived a heart attack then accurately described what was happening around them after their heart stopped beating.

He stated: "They will describe the observation of the work of doctors and nurses, describe that they are aware of entire conversations, ongoing visual events, which they would not otherwise have. not know. "

Explaining when a patient is officially declared dead, he said: "Everything is based on when the heart stops.

"Technically, that's how you get the hour of death."

His study examines what happens to the brain after cardiac arrest – and if consciousness persists after death and for how long – to improve the quality of resuscitation and prevent brain damage when restarting the heart.

Unlike the Flatliners plot, however, when a person is resuscitated, she does not come back with a "magical enrichment" of her memories, Dr. Parnia said.