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The syndrome that causes people to return to life after being declared dead
Is there life after death is a question that every person would want the answer to.
If you believe in quite a few cases, where people came back to life after death, the answer is yes - the question is, what life?
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Tuesday, 06 April 2021, 12:00 Updated: 12:07
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Life after death?
A body in a morgue (Photo: ShutterStock)
Once in a while we hear about a case of a man who came to life after being declared dead.
These stories often raise an eyebrow or distrust, but the sheer number of cases such an event has taken place leads us to believe that this is not an urban legend.
There are dozens of case studies in which people "came back to life" after being seen as dead, and were nicknamed "Lazarus Syndrome" after a miracle described in the New Testament in which Jesus raises Lazarus back from the dead four days after his death.
The syndrome, also known as "return to life after failed cardiopulmonary resuscitation," refers to an event in which a person goes into cardiac arrest and his heart stops beating, but returns to beating spontaneously again after resuscitation attempts have been stopped.
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A study conducted in 2020 reviewed all the known medical literature on this bizarre phenomenon and was able to find 65 patients who experienced the syndrome between 1982 and 2018.
Eighteen of these people (28 percent) were able to fully recover after supposedly coming back to life.
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One such case also caught the eye of this section.
The story of seven students from Denmark who died on a school trip is one of a kind, as it is the only documented case in history in which doctors were able to resuscitate all seven dead at once 6 hours after their hearts died out.
A BBC documentary called "Life After Death: How Seven Children Returned from the Dead" tells the story of schoolchildren who were found clinically dead after their boat capsized in a frozen lake in 2011.
The story of Dr. Mary Neil, a physician who experienced a near-death experience and a return to life, is a good example of such a story. Which completely changed her perception, was documented in a Netflix documentary series, "Surviving Death," which deals with people who have had a similar experience to hers.
In 1999 Neil went kayaking in southern Chile with a group of friends, when her kayak got stuck at the bottom of the waterfall, overturned and caught her underwater for 20 minutes.
Neil recounted the life-changing incident: "I was not breathing. My upper body was completely slammed into the front of the boat. I could feel my bones breaking."
She added: "Oddly enough, I did not feel pain, no fear, no panic. I thought to myself 'I need to scream' but I did not scream. I realized I was dead but felt more alive than ever."
The idea of 'Lazarus Syndrome' raises some fundamental questions about the accepted definitions of death.
Earlier this year, a study highlighted how death does not necessarily happen immediately, but rather is a relatively slow and ongoing process.
Scientists closely monitored the vital signs of more than 600 critically ill patients as they disconnected them from the resuscitation devices to which they were attached, and found that the heart could often stop beating and restart during the dying process before stopping forever.
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