Your Brain May Continue To Function After Your Death Long Enough For You To Be Aware Of It

[Political Junky]

Very interesting information.

Your Brain May Continue To Function After Your Death Long Enough For You To Be Aware Of It, Studies Suggest

Here’s some ooky spooky science just in time for Halloween: some studies suggests that our minds still work after we die. Meaning, when we die...we know that we’re dead. Scientifically speaking, this research, which was first published in 2014, says our consciousness may still function for a period of time after our physical body is declared dead. So, in theory, a person could literally hear themselves be pronounced dead by a doctor. (If you need to lie down for a minute, it’s cool.)

This study, which is the largest of its kind ever conducted, was done by a team of researchers lead by Dr. Sam Parnia, the director of critical care and resuscitation research at NYU Langone School of Medicine in New York City. Dr. Parnia and his team specifically studied people who had suffered cardiac arrest, technically been declared dead, and then later revived. As if dying and being brought back to life weren’t crazy enough in itself, what happened when the study participants were “dead” will shake you to the core.

 

[fncceo]

That's why I shoot them in the head ...

 

[G.T.]

seems like we simply need to re-define death as a stoppage of the brain, as opposed the heart, and then not a single person would experience "awareness" after theyre declared dead.

 

[Care4all]

That's why I shoot them in the head ...

 

[Coyote]

Why are dead people denied constitutional rights?

 

[G.T.]

Why are dead people denied constitutional rights?

Arrested development

 

[Coyote]

Why are dead people denied constitutional rights?

Arrested development

It's just a stage...I mean...they are human right?

 

[fncceo]

seems likw we simply need to redefine death as a stoppage of the brain, as opposed the heart, and then not a single person would experience "awareness" after theyre declared dead.

As someone who has observed a few people on their death bed, it's not difficult to see the stages of brain death as they pass away from natural causes. As the respiration and heart begins to fail, lack of oxygen perfusion to the brain causes it to die in stages. You can see the loss of muscle control in the face (similar to a stroke victim) and a general loss of consciousness. The brain may well continue to generate activity for a few moments post mortem, but it would be hard to claim that there is a conscious person trapped inside a dead body.

What has always intrigued me is decapitation victims (such as guillotine executions) the brain is severed from the circulatory system so quickly it may take minutes for brain death to occur.

 

[Pogo]

seems like we simply need to re-define death as a stoppage of the brain, as opposed the heart, and then not a single person would experience "awareness" after theyre declared dead.

Lotta wags on this forum don't exhibit "awareness" even now.

 

[aaronleland]

Wouldn't it suck if after you died some weird mortician started fucking your head?

 

[Coyote]

Wouldn't it suck if after you died some weird mortician started fucking your head?

Would they need to use a condom?

 

[aaronleland]

Wouldn't it suck if after you died some weird mortician started fucking your head?

Would they need to use a condom?

No. Using a condom while face fucking a dead body is just weird.

 

[fncceo]

Wouldn't it suck if after you died some weird mortician started fucking your head?

I'm very familiar with necrophilia. I used to be married.

 

[Markle]

What has always intrigued me is decapitation victims (such as guillotine executions) the brain is severed from the circulatory system so quickly it may take minutes for brain death to occur.

Back in the day of the very humane practice of guillotine executions, someone actually did research. He would ask those to be executed to blink their eyes as long as possible. He studied those who agreed and found that 10 seconds was the outside limit.

That seems about right. The brain needs freshly oxygenated blood for neurons to fire. No fresh blood after the head hits the basket.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Does that mean that about 90% of the posters here will have their brain START to function when dead?

Better late than never, I guess.

 

[Markle]

Wouldn't it suck if after you died some weird mortician started fucking your head?

Many years ago there was a serial killer in England who did that to his victims. He would sever the head of his victim and have sex with the decapitated head.

 

[fncceo]

He would ask those to be executed to blink their eyes as long as possible. He studied those who agreed and found that 10 seconds was the outside limit.

Blinking in that way is a conscious act ... those must have been some miserable 10 seconds.

 

[Pogo]

Wouldn't it suck if after you died some weird mortician started fucking your head?

Ah I see you read the part of the article about the gag reflex.

 

[Pogo]

What has always intrigued me is decapitation victims (such as guillotine executions) the brain is severed from the circulatory system so quickly it may take minutes for brain death to occur.

Back in the day of the very humane practice of guillotine executions, someone actually did research. He would ask those to be executed to blink their eyes as long as possible. He studied those who agreed and found that 10 seconds was the outside limit.

That seems about right. The brain needs freshly oxygenated blood for neurons to fire. No fresh blood after the head hits the basket.

Why would someone about to be executed agree to anything?

 

[aaronleland]

Wouldn't it suck if after you died some weird mortician started fucking your head?

Many years ago there was a serial killer in England who did that to his victims. He would sever the head of his victim and have sex with the decapitated head.

Sexiest serial killer ever.