Study finds: when we die, the brain may "relive happy memories"

A new study discusses an issue that concerns many: what happens to us the moment we die?

Experts have concluded that the phrase "life passes before our eyes" may be accurate

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07/10/2022

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For many, the biggest mystery of our lives is what happens after we die - what, if anything, awaits us after we take our last breath?

Researchers have always tried to decipher what is really felt in the process of death - is there any consciousness in the moments between this world and the next?

Is it an experience similar to falling asleep or a slow drift into nothingness?

"Death is a unique experience for a person and their loved ones," explains Dr. Patrick Steele, specialist in palliative care at Victoria's Palliative Care South East, "there is much more than the physiological changes that contribute to the experience of death.

For example, a person's personality, the burden of his illness, the support of family and friends, the length of time with a terminal illness and his spirituality."

However, there are certain physiological changes that occur in the body during the dying process.

"Normal breathing patterns can change," he added, "sometimes they can be faster than normal and sometimes slower. In the last days there can be periods when there are long gaps between breaths. Breathing can become 'noisy' at the end of life. This is an accumulation of secretions The body. It often bothers the listeners more than the dying person."

What happens to us after death and during it?

A new study revealed interesting details (Photo: ShutterStock)

A study published earlier this year in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience found that the brain may remain active during—and perhaps even after—the moment of death.

Doctors were conducting a continuous electroencephalogram (EEG) test on a patient who developed epilepsy when the patient had a heart attack and died during the process.

This allowed them to chart the activity of the human brain at the time of death - and they discovered similar activity rhythms for memory retrieval, dreaming, meditation and conscious perception.

The study's director, Dr. Ajmal Zimar, a neurosurgeon at the University of Louisville, hypothesized that this could prove to us that the idea that our lives "flip before our eyes" when we die is completely true. "As a neurosurgeon, I sometimes deal with loss.

It is indescribably difficult to break the news of death to family members," he told the Frontier News blog. "There is something comforting that we may learn from this study.

Although our loved ones with their eyes closed and ready to leave us,

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