Is life after death possible?

Scientists from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have studied the pre-death experiences of humans.

They concluded that consciousness can continue to exist after clinical death.

The results of the study are published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

Seventy clinical deaths of patients who survived cardiac arrest were analyzed.

Phenomena were identified that challenge current scientific understanding of consciousness and its relationship to biological processes.

One of the most striking examples, according to the scientists, was recorded in 2022 and described by cardiac surgeon Lloyd W. Rudy at Stanford Medical Center.

A patient with a cerebral vascular aneurysm was officially declared deceased after a cardiac arrest.

However, 34 minutes later, he suddenly showed signs of life without any medical intervention.

The researchers noted that 72 hours after resuscitation, the patient was able to accurately reproduce the details of the events at the time of his clinical death.

He indicated the exact time of the surgeons’ actions with an error of less than 2%, reproduced the text of an e-mail that the nurse typed with the monitors turned off.

He also described the anesthesiologists’ conversation about defibrillator replacement, which took place after the patient had lost consciousness.

The head of the study, emphasized that such data cannot be explained by residual brain activity.

During the study, 89% of the participants were able to reproduce the information obtained in the condition of no EEG activity.

In the future, scientists plan to use next-generation quantum sensors to study activity at the subneuronal level.

This may open new horizons in understanding the complex processes of preserving consciousness after clinical death.