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AZPaul3
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Message 10 of 19 (844721)
12-04-2018 2:15 PM
Reply to: Message 7 by 1.61803
12-04-2018 1:29 PM


Night Of The Thinking Dead
Apparently we know we are dead right after we die.
I don't know about that.
Heart stoppage is not death. A total lack of brain activity is death.
To be aware, in any sense, requires brain activity. Electrical impulses stimulating neurons.
After your heart stops and your lungs stop I can see where brain activity may continue for some time until the electrical activity of the neurons ceases. Until that happens you are not dead. Your conscience may know that you are ABOUT to die, but, no, you are not yet dead. That electrical activity may be at a level too low for our present EEG technology to detect, but, until all such activity ceases you are not dead and may, if you're real lucky (unlucky?) be resuscitated.
I dispute the pop-presses sensationalist reporting of the phenomenon. And if some of the quotes from the studies authors are correct then I dispute the authors' definitions as well as their ability to communicate to the press.
Still, the thought of lying there knowing you have taken your last breath for a number of minutes is not a pleasant one.
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AZPaul3
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Message 12 of 19 (844728)
12-04-2018 2:55 PM
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12-04-2018 2:36 PM


Re: Night Of The Thinking Dead
When Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier was guillotined during the French Revolution it is said that as his last service to science (he was instrumental in the discovery of hydrogen, development of the metric system and an elementary table, etc.) he agreed to blink as fast as he could for as long as he could once the blade fell. Sources differ but the most common report is that he kept up his blinking for around 30 seconds. Plenty of time to think, "Well, this is not the best day I've ever had."

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