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.
Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.
Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.