Digg directed me to a story on howstuffworks about science & Death.
First a few definitions:
OBE – Out of Body experience
NDE – Near Death experience.
Pam Reynolds had a brain operation because she had a brain aneurysm. For this operations, doctors had to drain all of the blood from her brain for 45 minutes. Technically, she was dead for that time. Some awesome things happened when she was brought back.
She recounted talking to relatives….that had already passed. One of the more amazing things is she explained parts of the surgery and knew exactly the tools that were used on her!
“A brain-dead person should not be able to form new memories — he shouldn’t have any consciousness at all, really. So how can anything but a metaphysical explanation cover NDEs?”(source:Howstuffworks)
Another study conducted by University of Kentucky researchers has made them develop a hypothesis saying that the mind can wake before the body causing hallucinations and the feeling of being out of your body. Although this does make sense, it still doesn’t correlate with how a “brain-dead person can develop these memories or experiences”.
Someday, whenever I do croak….I still want my body to go into preservation so that if any type of scientific break-through comes around bringing people back….I want to be first in line. It will definitely be in my will.
This is amazing!
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I do think that we are very close to finding ways to dramatically increase the human lifespan. I think the question is what will most people do with all the extra time? Longer lived human beings does not mean better human beings . . .
Good point you bring up….Wouldn’t the equilibrium balance things because I’m sure religion would play an important role?
Some people would just find it immoral while the ones that did want to increase their lifespan would enjoy!