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First hint of 'life after death' in biggest ever scientific study - disinformation

First hint of 'life after death' in biggest ever scientific study - disinformation

Death is a depressingly inevitable consequence of life, but now
scientists believe they may have found some light at the end of the
tunnel.

The largest ever medical study into near-death and out-of-body
experiences has discovered that some awareness may continue even after
the brain has shut down completely.

It is a controversial subject which has, until recently, been treated with widespread scepticism.

But 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.

And they found that nearly 40 per cent of people who survived
described some kind of ‘awareness’ during the time when they were
clinically dead before their hearts were restarted.


One man even recalled leaving his body entirely and watching his resuscitation from the corner of the room.


Despite being unconscious and ‘dead’ for three minutes, the
57-year-old social worker from Southampton, recounted the actions of the
nursing staff in detail and described the sound of the machines.


“We know the brain can’t function when the heart has stopped
beating,” said Dr Sam Parnia, a former research fellow at Southampton
University, now at the State University of New York, who led the study.


“But in this case, conscious awareness appears to have continued for
up to three minutes into the period when the heart wasn’t beating, even
though the brain typically shuts down within 20-30 seconds after the
heart has stopped.


“The man described everything that had happened in the room, but
importantly, he heard two bleeps from a machine that makes a noise at
three minute intervals. So we could time how long the experienced lasted
for.


“He seemed very credible and everything that he said had happened to him had actually happened.”


Of 2060 cardiac arrest patients studied, 330 survived and 140 said
they had experienced some kind of awareness while being resuscitated.


Although many could not recall specific details, some themes emerged.
One in five said they had felt an unusual sense of peacefulness while
nearly one third said time had slowed down or speeded up.


Some recalled seeing a bright light; a golden flash or the Sun
shining. Others recounted feelings of fear or drowning or being dragged
through deep water. 13 per cent said they had felt separated from their
bodies and the same number said their sensed had been heightened.