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http://m.independent.ie/world-news/...youre-still-aware-after-you-die-36241653.html

Death just became even more scary: scientists say people are aware they’re dead because their consciousness continues to work after the body has stopped showing signs of life.

That means that, theoretically, someone may even hear their own death being announced by medics.
The claim was made by Dr Sam Parnia, director of critical care and resuscitation research at NYU Langone School of Medicine in New York City.

Pronounce me dead if old

 

[Jean Valjean]

Ressurection when?

 

[Christian]

Just the news I wanted to read on the way to work first thing in the morning.

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

Cool!

 

[hypernima]

Fuck my life.

 

[dragonlife]

Awesome and terrifying.

 

[J-Roderton]

Sounds awful.

 

[FiggyCal]

Near death experiences are really interesting.

Spoiler

Also I feel like this is the type of article that would have come out as part of a viral marketing campaign attempt for Flatliners.

 

[DBT85]

I always figured that anyway. Just because your heart stops doesn't mean the brain has stopped doing shit for a few moments.

Imagine having your head chopped off and seeing the crowd/sky/crowd/sky.

 

[Sub_Level]

Good argument to never bring the guillotine back. (aside from it being disgusting)

 

[g11]

So Hollywood was right all along...

 

[8byte]

“Scientists”?

Literally says one guy made this claim, no?

 

[Mathieran]

I always figured that anyway. Just because your heart stops doesn't mean the brain has stopped doing shit for a few moments.

Imagine having your head chopped off and seeing the crowd/sky/crowd/sky.

I've always thought about that. Shit's fucked up.

 

[water_wendi]

 

[ZedLeppelin006]

Well that's just fantastic...

 

[ahoyhoy]

If this is true please smash by brain as soon as I flatline.

 

[Nepenthe]

So it's not a fade out, but a sudden "holy shit!"?

Just blow my brains out then. Fuck that noise.

 

[StrategyFan]

it just means time of 'death' doesn't indicate when you cease to exist

 

[Tadaima]

Always wondered this.

 

[ghst]

I always figured that anyway. Just because your heart stops doesn't mean the brain has stopped doing shit for a few moments.

Imagine having your head chopped off and seeing the crowd/sky/crowd/sky.

i imagine the feeling of your entire nervous system being scythed off in an instant would preoccupy any time you had to think.

 

[FUME5]

Posting a link to another article that has fuck all proof, no links to studies, nothing.

 

[Pankratous]

So how long does it take for that awareness to end?

 

[HStallion]

SCP-2718 gives you the full details on this.

Spoiler

Scroll to the bottom of the page and press "play" if you want to see what I mean

 

[RumblingRosco]

So basically, if anyone ever dies in my arms, remind them that they're loved and I'm there for them even for a few minutes after they are dead, just to be safe.

Also, can we get a link to a peer-reviewed study in here?

 

[Arttemis]

What time frame are we talking? A second, five seconds, thirty seconds? What a vague article!

 

[Omni]

I'm too young to be thinking about this

 

[Tadaima]

What time frame are we talking? A second, five seconds, thirty seconds? What a vague article!

Eternity

 

[Nokagi]

So if I'm murdered I will get to think "that motherfucker just killed me". Good to know.

 

[Orbis Tabula]

So, summary seems to be "when your heart stops and we manage to bring you back, some people report having heard things we were saying for seconds after their heart stopped."

I think that's a pretty far cry from "your consciousness continues after you're dead." Firstly, because people having near-death experiences who report being aware of the doctors while they were gone is a common thing, that I don't think has much scientific support.

Secondly because, I think most of us would say that a person who's heart stopped isn't really dead yet, if there's brain activity. This just makes me continue to think that using a heart beat as the definition of death is an antiquated idea.

 

[ozz ex machina]

We are literally talking about a few seconds. Clickbait bullshit, especially the thread title.

 

[Antiwhippy]

So basically, if anyone ever dies in my arms, remind them that they're loved and I'm there for them even for a few minutes after they are dead, just to be safe.

 

[snausagesUK]

Posting a link to another article that has fuck all proof, no links to studies, nothing.

It's the indo lol, par for the course

 

[phisheep]

Old news. Dr Beaurieux tried this out on the severed head of Languille in 1905.

 

[Garmonbozia]

 

[darkwing]

What time frame are we talking? A second, five seconds, thirty seconds? What a vague article!

until your brain runs out of oxygen/blood I guess

 

[DeathyBoy]

Can't kill zombies then. They got rights too.

 

[buttery fistful]

I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell

 

[Kyzer]

And you're tripping balls off DMT bro

 

[RPGCrazied]

For how long? Can't imagine being aware buried 10 feet deep.

 

[Squirrel Killer]

There goes the short story idea I've been procrastinating forever on because I was too scared to think too deeply about.

 

[Sapiens]

I always heard that when they chopped your head off in the guilitine that you had a good 7 or 8 seconds of awareness when your head was in the basket.

 

[wumster3000]

Op, why in the hell did you make this thread? This is the scariest shit I’ve ever read and I’m not joking.

A mod needs to take your thread making privileges away.

Edit:

I always heard that when they chopped your head off in the guilitine that you had a good 7 or 8 seconds of awareness when your head was in the basket.

Okay, I’m out.

 

[Nokagi]

I always heard that when they chopped your head off in the guilitine that you had a good 7 or 8 seconds of awareness when your head was in the basket.

Did you hear this from Karl Pilkington?

 

[phisheep]

What time frame are we talking? A second, five seconds, thirty seconds? What a vague article!

From Dr Beaurieux's report:

Here, then, is what I was able to note immediately after the decapitation: the eyelids and lips of the guillotined man worked in irregularly rhythmic contractions for about five or six seconds. This phenomenon has been remarked by all those finding themselves in the same conditions as myself for observing what happens after the severing of the neck …

I waited for several seconds. The spasmodic movements ceased. The face relaxed, the lids half closed on the eyeballs, leaving only the white of the conjunctiva visible, exactly as in the dying whom we have occasion to see every day in the exercise of our profession, or as in those just dead. It was then that I called in a strong, sharp voice: “Languille!” I saw the eyelids slowly lift up, without any spasmodic contractions –- I insist advisedly on this peculiarity –- but with an even movement, quite distinct and normal, such as happens in everyday life, with people awakened or torn from their thoughts.
Next Languille’s eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine and the pupils focused themselves. I was not, then, dealing with the sort of vague dull look without any expression, that can be observed any day in dying people to whom one speaks: I was dealing with undeniably living eyes which were looking at me. After several seconds, the eyelids closed again, slowly and evenly, and the head took on the same appearance as it had had before I called out.

It was at that point that I called out again and, once more, without any spasm, slowly, the eyelids lifted and undeniably living eyes fixed themselves on mine with perhaps even more penetration than the first time. The there was a further closing of the eyelids, but now less complete. I attempted the effect of a third call; there was no further movement -– and the eyes took on the glazed look which they have in the dead.
I have just recounted to you with rigorous exactness what I was able to observe. The whole thing had lasted twenty-five to thirty seconds.

 

[Razorback]

Heart-stopping ≠ death.

You're dead when your brain dies.

 

[Thud]

There's a bit where they measured electrical signals coming from the brain after the heart stops with patients.

Need some more info on this for we put heads in liquid tanks like in Futurama.

 

[hidys]

Did you hear this from Karl Pilkington?

I remember this from QI.

 

[JettDash]

So, summary seems to be "when your heart stops and we manage to bring you back, some people report having heard things we were saying for seconds after their heart stopped."

I think that's a pretty far cry from "your consciousness continues after you're dead." Firstly, because people having near-death experiences who report being aware of the doctors while they were gone is a common thing, that I don't think has much scientific support.

Secondly because, I think most of us would say that a person who's heart stopped isn't really dead yet, if there's brain activity. This just makes me continue to think that using a heart beat as the definition of death is an antiquated idea.

Pretty much what I was going to say.

 

[Randam]

Title is misleading.

They don't say the mind stays conscious for ever.

 

[Blue Submarine No. 6]

So basically, if anyone ever dies in my arms, remind them that they're loved and I'm there for them even for a few minutes after they are dead, just to be safe.

My mother, an RN for more than 40 years with extensive Emergency and IC experience, has maintained this as long as I remember... She says that experiences she's had suggest to her that a person or animal may be "aware" for as many as two minutes after "death"... and she thinks that hearing is the last thing to go... I've been with her when she had to put down a couple of her pets, and she talks softly to the dog "good girl, it's alright, mommy loves you" etc. for a couple minutes after the pulse stops in case they linger...