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Have scientists found proof of life after death?
Is there really life after death? Brain activity is recorded 10 MINUTES after patient dies in an ‘unexplained’ case
Patient continued to release delta wave bursts after they were declared dead
These waves normally occur in deep sleep and show the brain is still working
The timing of death throws up difficult questions about organ donation
One in five people who survive cardiac arrests report other-worldly experience
By Phoebe Weston For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 11:38 GMT, 8 March 2017 | UPDATED: 14:11 GMT, 8 March 2017
Life may continue even after death - just in sleep mode.
Doctors have found scientific evidence that people's brains can continue to work after they are clinically dead.
A patient showed persistent brain activity for ten minutes after their heart stopped and experienced brain waves we normally get during deep sleep.
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Scientists from from the University of Western Ontario in Canada studied the extraordinary case of a patient continuing to release delta wave bursts after they were declared dead. We normally get these delta waves during a deep sleep
Doctors in a Canadian intensive care unit described the case as extraordinary and unexplained.
Researchers from the University of Western Ontario in Canada assessed electric impulses in the brain in relation to the beating of someone's heart after life-sustaining therapy was removed.
Brain inactivity preceded the heart stopping in three of the four cases.
However, in one of the cases, the patient's brain continued to work after their heart stopped.
'In one patient, single delta wave bursts persisted following the cessation of both the cardiac rhythm and arterial blood pressure (ABP),' the researchers said.
There was significant differences in electrical activity in the brain between the 30-minute period before and the 5-minute period after the heart stopped.
It is difficult to posit a physiological basis for this EEG [brain] activity given that it occurs after a prolonged loss of circulation', according to the paper which was published in the National Centre for Biotechnology Information.
Across the four patients recordings of their brain were very different - suggesting we all experience death in unique ways.
The experiment raises difficult questions about when someone is dead and therefore when it is medically and ethically correct to use them for organ donation.
As many as a fifth of people who survive cardiac arrests report having had an other-worldly experience while being 'clinically' dead.
However, scientists say it's far too early to be talking about what this could mean for the post-death experience - especially considering it was only seen in one patient, according to Science Alert.
In 2013, a similar phenomenon was investigated on experiments on rats whose hearts had stopped.
In one of the cases, single delta wave bursts persisted after the heart had stopped and the patient was clinically dead. The experiment raises difficult questions about when someone is dead and therefore when it is medically and ethically correct to use them for organ donation
The research, which was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealed rats had a burst of brain activity one minute after decapitation.
The pattern of activity was similar to that seen when the animals were fully conscious - except signals were up to eight times stronger.
The researchers said that the discovery that the brain is highly active in the seconds after the heart stops suggests that the phenomenon has a physical, rather than spiritual nature.
It has been argued that the dying brain is incapable of such complex activity and so near-death experiences must have their origins in the soul.
It suggests something happens at the brink of death that pushes the conscious brain to a high level of arousal, potentially triggering the visions and sensations associated with near-death experiences (NDEs).
As many as a fifth of people who survive cardiac arrests report having had an other-worldly experience while being 'clinically' dead.
Typically NDEs involve travelling through a tunnel towards an intense light, being separated from the body, encountering long-departed loved ones or angels and undergoing some kind of judgment of 'life review.
Some emerge from NDEs as transformed individuals with a completely altered outlook on life, or a new belief in religion.
But many scientists believe near-death-experiences are nothing more than hallucinations induced by the effect of the brain shutting down.
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