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Is life over when our heart stops beating?

2/1/2015

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Nobody KNOWS what happens when you die but a new study could help shine a scientific lens onto the controversial subject, which has been treated with widespread skepticism.

Scientists at the University of Southampton have spent four years examining more than 2,000 people who suffered cardiac arrests at 15 hospitals in the UK, US and Austria.

Nearly 40 per cent of survivors described some kind of awareness during the time when they were clinically dead before their hearts were restarted.

Despite being unconscious and dead for three minutes, one 57-year-old man recalled what the nursing staff did in detail and described the sound of the machines.

A former research fellow at Southampton University, now at the State University of New York, led the study. He said the brain typically shuts down within 20-30 seconds after the heart has stopped beating, so he believes the brain can’t function. Yet, in this case, conscious awareness appeared to have continued for up to three minutes into that period.

The 57-year-old patient described everything that occurred in the room, including two bleeps from a machine that sounds at three minute intervals, which shows how long the experienced lasted.

Of 2060 cardiac arrest patients studied, 330 survived and of 140 surveyed, 39 per cent said they had experienced some kind of awareness while being resuscitated, including a bright ray of sunshine. Drugs? Hallucinations? The joy of regaining life?

Okay. I admit that's not a great percentage to prove life after death exists.

A research psychologist and Nottingham Trent University is compiling data on out-of-body experiences in an attempt to discover a pattern linking each episode. He hopes the latest research will encourage new studies into the controversial topic. See more at The Telegraph. 

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Good luck to the scientists. Many people are certain our existence on Earth is but a fleeting awareness of our real spirit.

Why bother striving for excellence if all we've achieved dies with us?

My novels in the Moonstone series hint at the way life teaches us certain lessons and raises questions about having lived in the past. You'll see them on the sidebar, one click away from an Amazon near you.


Each one of us has an opinion on this subject that affects us so fundamentally. After all, we don't want to think that when we die, our essence is snuffed out like a candle flame.


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Alana link
1/31/2015 10:44:08 pm

Few of us want to think we end with death. Unfortunately, all these studies were done on people who were able to be revived. I find it interesting that the magician Houdini never contacted the living, something he promised to do if he was able. Could be several reasons - we do end, we lose interest in the living, or it violates some after-death natural law. Makes me wonder.

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Ajay Pai link
1/31/2015 11:53:05 pm

Such an interesting topic. Life after death. Feels Ghostly when I read at this point in time, when its stark darkness in my reading room.

Let me invite the Holy Spirit to stay awake with me to guard me!

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Donna Ward link
2/1/2015 02:16:39 am

Of course, I love this topic - Francene - being an Intuitive through the Holy Spirit - when I was 10 years old I had my first 2 out of body experiences - up the tunnel to the light - and before the tunnel did float over myself in wonder - so I am a believer :)

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Shalini link
2/1/2015 02:30:08 am

My Mom being one! Inspiring post. Thanks for sharing :)

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Scott link
2/1/2015 04:29:49 am

I would love to believe there is something after our time here on Earth, but the logical side of me doubts it. I hope I'm wrong.

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Corinne Rodrigues link
2/1/2015 02:49:50 pm

I can't believe that it would all end without anything thereafter, Francene - although naturally, I don't know what there is to come! I can only say that as I'm getting older, I'm more conscious about my own mortality and do sometimes wonder what is to come.

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