In people during the “first phase of death” one can still observe slight signs of consciousness.
Most people on the planet live with the fear of the inevitable. Especially this fear manifests itself in lonely people. Scientists who have been doing research on this topic for a long time said that all these fears are not so unfounded.
At the University of New York there is the Langone School of Medicine, whose scientists said that people after death are for a short period of time in understanding what happened to them and that they died. This statement was published on the pages of the online edition of LiveScience.
Scientists have been monitoring changes in the state of the brain of dying people for many years.
Death, from the point of view of doctors, is a complete cardiac arrest for more than five minutes: blood ceases to be supplied to the brain, which subsequently leads to his death. The process of cell death starts. The head of the research team, Sam Parnia, said that the brain dies more slowly than the heart, because after death, brain cells die within a few hours.
The scientists also noted that consciousness after the cessation of the functioning of the heart muscle does not turn off immediately. In the process of the “first phase of death”, a person is in “consciousness”, in other words, his body does not obey, but his brain understands everything.
The evidentiary database of statements was replenished with frequent cases when people who woke up after a cardiac arrest described in great detail what was happening around them. During the research, scientists communicated with patients and observed their further condition.
Parnia noted that patients after cardiac arrest talked about what they saw medical workers (who tried to resuscitate them), quoted their conversation, accurately conveyed everything down to intonation – in fact, this information was not available to them. According to the feelings of the patients, they lost touch with their body, and were, as it were, in prison. The feeling is not pleasant, as there is a fear of something inevitable and new.
All these facts were also confirmed by physicians, who were surprised to note that patients, after a short, but death, told such minute details. During the entire period, physicians closely collaborated with scientists and reported on all clinical deaths that occurred in order to make as much progress as possible in solving such a global question: “what do people feel after death?”.
The work of a group of scientists led by Parnia continues its activities, and the researchers are going to talk about their achievements in the following articles.