For many, life’s greatest mystery is what happens after death – what, if anything, awaits after we take our final breath?
What does the dying process feel like? Is there any consciousness that remains in the moments between this world and whatever comes next? Is it like the experience of falling asleep, a slow drift into nothingness, or are we aware of shuffling off this mortal coil?
“Dying is an experience unique to the individual and their loved ones,” explains Dr. Patrick Steele, palliative care specialist at Victoria’s Palliative Care South East.For example, a person’s personality, their burden of disease, the support of family and friends, the length of time with a terminal illness and their spirituality.”Researches were able to chart the activity of the human brain during death after conducting an experiment on a patient with epilepsy.
It allowed them to chart the activity of the human brain during death, and they discovered rhythms of activity similar to memory retrieval, dreaming, meditation and conscious perception. This, hypothesized the study’s organizer Dr. Ajmal Zemmar, a neurosurgeon at the University of Louisville, could mean“As a neurosurgeon, I deal with loss at times. It is indescribably difficult to deliver the news of death to distraught family members,” he told the Frontier News blog.
“Something we may learn from this research is: although our loved ones have their eyes closed and are ready to leave us to rest, their brains may be replaying some of the nicest moments they experienced in their lives.”